The Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns

The Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns Criticism

• Introduction
• Representative Works
• Criticism: Overviews
  • The Battle of the Books and the Shield of Achilles
  • Ancients and Moderns
• Criticism: Renaissance Origins
  • Ancients and Moderns Reconsidered
  • Humanist Attitudes to Convention and Innovation in the Fifteenth Century
  • Ancients and Moderns in the Renaissance: Rhetoric and History in Accolti's Dialogue on the Preeminence of Men of His Own Time
• Criticism: The Quarrel Between The Ancients And The Moderns In France
  • Boileau, the Moderns, and the Topinamboux
  • The Old Rhetoric vs. the New Rhetoric: The Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns
  • Recognizing Differences: Perrault's Modernist Esthetic in Parallèle des Anciens et des Modernes
  • Dialogue and Speakers in Parallèle des Anciens et des Modernes
• Criticism: The Battle Of The Books In England
  • Jonathan Swift's Battle of the Books: Its Background and Satire
  • Swift's Strategy in The Battle of the Books
  • Ancients and Moderns in Defoe's Consolidator
  • The Splitting of Humanism: Bentley, Swift and the English Battle of the Books
• Further Reading