Prendergast, Christopher
The Classic

Sainte-Beuve and the Nineteenth-Century Culture Wars.

Focusing on a moment and a source in nineteenth-century France, 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?'). X,315 Seiten, gebunden (Oxford University Press 2007) textsauberes Exemplar mit leichten Gebrauchsspuren, leicht berieben/clean text pages, minor traces of use, slightly rubbed