According to critical doxa, Contre Sainte-Beuve imposed the separation of the creative self and the social self. But Proust is not the first to have rejected Sainte-Beuve's method. This volume sheds light on the writers who, before the author of the Recherche, put biographical criticism on trial.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
