Grotesque Figures: Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity
(Part of the Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society Series)
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Charles Baudelaire is usually read as a paradigmatically modern poet, whose work ushered in a new era of French literature. But the common emphasis on his use of new forms and styles overlooks the complex role of the past in his work. In Grotesque Figures, Virginia E. Swain explores how the specter of the eighteenth century made itself felt in Baudelaire's modern poetry in the pervasive textual and figural presence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0801879450
ISBN13:9780801879456
Release Date:October 2004
Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:0.77 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"
Age Range:22 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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