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

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

Christopher Prendergast

315 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics literary challenging medium-paced
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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...

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