The Classic: Sainte-Beuve and the Nineteenth-Century Culture Wars

by Christopher Prendergast

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Focusing on a moment and a source in nineteenth-century France, Christopher Prendergast takes up a big question that is still with us: What is a classic? The question is, by virtue of its insistent recurrence, itself a classic question. It returns to haunt us. It provided the title of a text for French critic Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve in 1850 ("Qu'est-ce qu'un classique?"), as it did in the twentieth century for T.S. Eliot and John Coetzee. Centring...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0199215855

ISBN13:9780199215850

Release Date:February 2008

Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA

Length:328 Pages

Weight:1.40 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Literary Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literature Literature & Fiction

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