The Classic: Saintebeuve And The Nineteenthcentury Culture Wars,New Rainer Maria Ours Is A Planet Constantly

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The Classic: Saintebeuve And The Nineteenthcentury Culture Wars,New Rainer Maria Ours Is A Planet ConstantlyFocusing On A Moment And A Source In Nineteenthcentury 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 To Haunt Us. It Provided The Title Of A Text For French Critic Charlesaugustin Saintebeuve In 1850 ('Qu'Estce Qu'Un Classique?'), As It Did In The Twentieth Century For T. S. Eliot And John Coetzee. Centring