Grotesque Figures: Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity

by Virginia E. Swain

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