Grotesque Figures Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity

• Main Author: Swain, Virginia E. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Johns Hopkins University Press 2004
• Subjects: Literary studies: general; Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800
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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...