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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465368403321

Autore

Prendergast Christopher

Titolo

The classic [[electronic resource] ] : Sainte-Beuve and the nineteenth-century culture wars / / Christopher Prendergast

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2007

ISBN

0-19-152700-9

9786611149468

1-281-14946-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Disciplina

848/.709

Soggetti

Criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: The Profession of Criticism; 2. The View from Montserrat; 3. Classic and Nation; 4. Latinity and the Second Renaissance; 5. Homer or Virgil?; 6. Origins and the Middle Ages; 7. Romans, Gauls, and Franks; 8. Literature and Democracy; 9. The Foundations of Culture; 10. The Modern Classic; 11. Postscript: The Good Frenchman; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; X; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing on a moment and a source in 19th-century France, Christopher Prendergast takes up a big question that is still with us: <i>What is a classic?</i> His enquiry, which centres on the French critic Sainte-Beuve (1804-69), who asked the question 'Qu'est-ce qu'un classique?' in an essay of 1850, takes us on a tour of the history of the 'classic' that provides insights into and beyond the 'culture wars' of the 19th century. - ;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