Baudelaire and the Aesthetics of Bad Faith

by Susan Blood

This is a study of Baudelaire's canonization in the critical debates of the twentieth century, focusing particularly on his role in the development of a modernist consciousness. Much recent work on Baudelaire assumes his modernism by emphasizing his relationship to current critical preoccupations--by sounding him out on issues of race and gender, for example, or by "correcting" his politics. The author begins from the premise that this updating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804728097
• ISBN13: 9780804728096
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.8"