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...
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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. - ;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
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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
