Swain's literary, cultural, and historical analysis deepens our understanding of Baudelaire and of nineteenth-century aesthetics by relating Baudelaire's poetic theory and practice to Enlightenment debates about allegory and the grotesque in the arts. Offering a novel reading of Baudelaire's ambivalent engagement with the eighteenth-century, Grotesque Figures examines nineteenth-century ideological debates over French identity, Rousseau's political and artistic legacy, the aesthetic and political significance of the rococo, and the presence of the grotesque in the modern.
Swain's literary, cultural, and historical analysis deepens our understanding of Baudelaire and of nineteenth-century aesthetics by relating Baudelaire's poetic theory and practice to Enlightenment debates about allegory and the grotesque in the arts. Offering a novel reading of Baudelaire's ambivalent engagement with the eighteenth-century, Grotesque Figures examines nineteenth-century ideological debates over French identity, Rousseau's political and artistic legacy, the aesthetic and political significance of the rococo, and the presence of the grotesque in the modern.
Grotesque Figures: Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity
288Grotesque Figures: Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity
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ISBN-13: | 9780801879456 |
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Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Publication date: | 10/08/2004 |
Series: | Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society |
Pages: | 288 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.86(d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |