I was given the wonderful opportunity to write some notes on Contre Sainte-Beuve for Pericles Lewis's Yale Modernism Lab: http://modernism.research.yale.edu/wiki/index.php/Contre_Saint-Beuve

Literary readers: you might read 284-290 first, if you're interested in some of the problems DJ is working through. (I assume what he writes about the Vietnam-era intelligence community applies equally to the present war and to the present literary community.)