Christopher Prendergast

The Classic

Sainte-Beuve and the Nineteenth-Century Culture Wars

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Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on a moment and a source in 19th-century France, Christopher Prendergast takes up a big question that is still with us: What is a classic? 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 164mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780199215850
• ISBN-10: 0199215855
• Artikelnr.: 23011345

Autorenporträt

Christopher Prendergast is a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and was the general editor of The Penguin Proust

Inhaltsangabe

1: Introduction: The Profession of Criticism
2: The View from the Mountain
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