Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Harold Nicolson, Sainte-Beuve (1957, reprinted 1978), is a biography. A.G. Lehmann, Sainte-Beuve: A Portrait of the Critic, 1804–1842 (1962), is a study of the critic in the world of the ideas and letters of his time. Richard M. Chadbourne, Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1977), provides an introduction to his works. Christopher Prendergast, Classic: Sainte-Beuve and the Nineteenth-Century Culture Wars (2007), examines the development of Sainte-Beuve’s critical thought.

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Bibliography revised and updated. Aug 23, 2007
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