LEADER 03721oam 22005294a 450 001 9910524675103321 005 20230621135943.0 010 $a0-8018-7945-0 035 $a(CKB)5360000000001004 035 $a(OCoLC)1048208536 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse69512 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88720 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC29138854 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL29138854 035 $a(oapen)doab88720 035 $a(OCoLC)1553144036 035 $a(EXLCZ)995360000000001004 100 $a20031223d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGrotesque Figures$eBaudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity /$fVirginia E. Swain 205 $a1st ed. 210 $cJohns Hopkins University Press$d2004 210 1$aBaltimore :$cJohns Hopkins University Press,$d2004. 210 4$d©2004. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 268 p. :)$cill. ; 225 0 $aParallax 311 08$a1-4214-2923-3 311 08$a1-4214-2768-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 249-259) and index. 327 $aCover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 The Grotesque: Definitions and 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 The Sociopolitical Implications of the Grotesque: "Opera" and "Les Yeux des pauvres" -- 7 Rousseau, Trauma, and Fetishism: "Le Vieux Saltimbanque" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index. 330 $aCharles Baudelaire is usually read as a paradigmatically modern poet, whose work ushered in a new era of French literature. But the common emphasis on his use of new forms and styles overlooks the complex role of the past in his work. In Grotesque Figures, Virginia E. Swain explores how the specter of the eighteenth century made itself felt in Baudelaire's modern poetry in the pervasive textual and figural presence of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Not only do Rousseau's ideas inform Baudelaire's theory of the grotesque, but Rousseau makes numerous appearances in Baudelaire's poetry as a caricature or type representing the hold of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution over Baudelaire and his contemporaries. As a character in "Le Poème du hashisch" and the Petits Poèmes en prose, "Rousseau" gives the grotesque a human form.Swain's literary, cultural, and historical analysis deepens our understanding of Baudelaire and of nineteenth-century aesthetics by relating Baudelaire's poetic theory and practice to Enlightenment debates about allegory and the grotesque in the arts. Offering a novel reading of Baudelaire's ambivalent engagement with the eighteenth-century, Grotesque Figures examines nineteenth-century ideological debates over French identity, Rousseau's political and artistic legacy, the aesthetic and political significance of the rococo, and the presence of the grotesque in the modern. 410 0$aParallax (Baltimore, Md.) 606 $aGrotesque in literature 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGrotesque in literature. 676 $a841/.8 700 $aSwain$b Virginia E.$f1943-$01088347 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524675103321 996 $aGrotesque Figures$92605769 997 $aUNINA