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The quarrel between the ancients and the moderns in seventeenth-century France, including debates about the novel, the emergence of women readers, and the relation between present and past. Germany's Sturm und Drang (Storm and Stress) movement in the eighteenth century and how it challenged the boundaries of social class and the limitations of dramatic conventions. Debates about college curricula, from Harvard's free-elective system of the late nineteenth century to Stanford's shift from its Western Culture program in the 1980s.
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