Formation of English Neo-Classical Thought

by James William Johnson

Overview

This book reexamines some of the prevalent critical assumptions about English Neo-Classical thought and literature and tests them by viewing Neo-Classicism within its intellectual tradition and its self-defined limits.

Originally published in 1967.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780691623559
Publisher:	Princeton University Press
Publication date:	12/08/2015
Series:	Princeton Legacy Library , #2195
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter, pg. i
• Preface, pg. vii
• Acknowledgments, pg. xx
• Contents, pg. xxiii
• 1. Some Terms and Their Uses, pg. 1
• 2. The Role of Historiography, pg. 31
• 3. Greece, pg. 69
• 4. Rome, pg. 91
• 5. Carthage, Alexandria, Nicaea, pg. 106
• 6. Byzantium, pg. 122
• 7. Holland, pg. 138
• 8. Neo-Classicism and the Tragic Drama, pg. 165
• 9. Gibbon, pg. 193
• Appendix. Selected Titles from Edward Gibbon's Library, pg. 253
• Notes, pg. 269
• Bibliography, pg. 299
• Index, pg. 319