Sainte-Beuve

In Les Courbezon, the French Vicar of Wakefield, as Sainte-Beuve declared, with this imposing background, the Church and the world, as they shape themselves in the Cevennes, the priest and the peasant, occupy about an equal share of interest.

She read a great deal, and almost always French books, in fresh yellow paper; not the lighter forms of that literature, but a volume of Sainte-Beuve, of Renan or at the most, in the way of dissipation, of Alfred de Musset.

Among the models that fed into this work were the French academic eloge and the "literary portrait" as developed by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve; the latter's adoption of the "portrait" for literary-critical purposes offered Morley a supple form for approaching the life of ideas.

Cette theorie sera developpee plus amplement dans Contre Sainte-Beuve.

During the same period, the development of journalism gave rise to intensified questioning, debate and contestation of the persuasive powers of the spoken word; as a member of the Chambre, Lamartine's every speech was reported, analyzed and often harshly critiqued in the press by editors, politicians (Tocqueville, Veuillot, Guizot) and writers (Balzac, Flaubert, Sainte-Beuve) for its effectiveness or lack thereof.

"Le probleme Baudelaire" (43-87)--with its trendy medieval genitive following Sainte-Beuve (see La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso; John E.

Introduction: Volupte de Sainte-Beuve: nature et objet du livre

Passerat had been given significant attention by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve in his Tableau historique et critique de la poesie francaise et du theatre francais au XVIe siecle (1828, 1838, 1842, 1843), but the eminent critic had not mentioned "J'ay perdu ma Tourterelle." (11) The decidedly less eminent but even better-selling midlebrow novelist Paul de Kock had paid significant attention to "J'ay perdu ma Tourterelle," however, featuring it prominently in a courtship scene of several pages in his historical novel Le barbier de Paris (1827, 1829, 1833, 1835, 1838, 1842).

Michel Brix looks at Sainte-Beuve, Martial Martin at the afterlife of the Satyre menippee, and Gilles Banderier at Agrippa d'Aubigne.