Ancients and moderns
Subtitle: a study of the background of The battle of the books
By: by Richard Foster Jones ...
Series: Washington university studies. New series. Language and literature.; no. 6; Washington University studies.; no. 6.
Published: 1936
Place of publication: St. Louis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 358
Subjects: Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745.; Literature and science -- Great Britain -- History -- 17th century.; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of.; Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.
Notes: "Notes [bibliographical]": p. [285]-358.
"Fifteen years ago I published in the Washington university studies a treatise entitled 'The background of The battle of the books' ... The present study is an amplified treatment of the same subject ... [and] aims at being a history not of science but of the idea of science in the seventeenth century."--Pref.