The long quarrel : past and present in the eighteenth century / edited by Jacques Bos, Jan Rotmans.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bos, Jacques, 1971- editor.

Rotmans, Jan, 1986- editor.

Series:

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 332.

Brill's studies in intellectual history ; volume 392

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of--Influence.

Ancients and moderns, Quarrel of.

European literature--18th century--History and criticism.

European literature.

Europe--Intellectual life--18th century.

Europe.

Intellectual life.

Europe--Civilization--18th century.

Civilization.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xi, 258 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]

Summary:

"The Long Quarrel: Past and Present in the Eighteenth Century examines how the intellectual clashes emerging from the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns continued to reverberate until the end of the eighteenth century. This extended Quarrel was not just about the value of ancient and modern, but about historical thought in a broader sense. The tension between ancient and modern expanded into a more general tension between past and present, which were no longer seen as essentially similar, but as different in nature. Thus, a new kind of historical consciousness came into being in the Long Quarrel of the eighteenth century, which also gave rise to new ideas about knowledge, art, literature and politics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The long quarrel in the eighteenth century / Jacques Bos and Jan Rotmans

The quarrel in the long eighteenth century : from "ancient and modern" to "classical and romantic" / Larry F. Norman

The speculative foundations of the quarrel : Fontenelle's Plurality of inhabited worlds and the 'epistemology of the uncertain' / Christine Zabel

The quarrel over chronology at the Académie des inscriptions : ancient history, modern methods, and the autonomy of the historical discipline / Anton M. Matytsin

Questioning Homer's Iliad? Different perceptions of the ancient world in the pages of the Nouveau Mercure galant / David D. Reitsam

Thersites moralized : eighteenth-century corrective, apologetic and exegetic readings of the Iliad / Vera Fasshauer

"Horace is dead, but I am alive!" Epic failure and satiric authority in eighteenth-century Sweden / Anna Cullhed

'Necesse est indiciis monstrare recentibus abdita rerum' : William Hogarth's The four times of day and the challenge to past models in eighteenth-century art / Friederike Vosskamp

Ochlocracy and democracy in the "long quarrel" : modern republicanism and its ancient rivals revisited / Iain McDaniel

The political thought of Henri de Boulainvilliers reconsidered / Andrew Jainchill

Between history and political economy : the debate over ancient populousness in eighteenth-century Denmark-Norway / Håkon Evju.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Long quarrel

ISBN:

9789004444652

9004444653

OCLC:

1284919460