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

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Main Author: Swain, Virginia E., 1943-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Grotesque Figures
  • 2. Rococo Rhetoric: Figures of the Past in "Le Poeme du hachisch"
  • 3. Identity Politics: "Rousseau" and "France" in the Mid-Nineteenth-Century
  • 4. Baudelaire's Physiologie: Rousseau as Caricature and Type in the Prose Poems
  • 5. Machines, Monsters, and Men: Realism and the Modern Grotesque
  • 6. Socio-Political Implications of the Grotesque: "Opera" and "Les Yeux des Pauvres"
  • 7. Rousseau, Trauma and Fetishism: "Le Vieux Saltimbanque."