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<p>Joseph M. Levine provides a witty and erudite account of one of the most celebrated chapters in English cultural history, the acrimonious quarrel between the "ancients" and the "moderns" which Jonathan Swift dubbed "the Battle of the Books." The dispute that amused and excited the English world of letters from 1690 until the 1730s was, Levine shows, an installment in the long-standing debate about the relationship of classical learning to modern life.</p><p>Levine argues that the debate was f
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- Author
- Levine, Joseph M.
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781501727641
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Literary Criticism, Historiography
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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