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

The Classic : Hardback : Oxford University Press : 9780199215850 : 0199215855 : 09 Feb 2008 : 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 on Sainte-Beuve in his nineteenth-century ..."Read More

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  • Blackwell

    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? Focusing on a moment and a source in nineteenth-century France, Christopher Prendergast takes...

  • 0199215855
  • 9780199215850
  • Christopher Prendergast
  • 21 June 2007
  • OUP Oxford
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 352
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