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

Swain, Virginia E., 1943-

Grotesque Figures : Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity / Virginia E. Swain. - 1 online resource (288 pages): illustrations - Parallax . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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."

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ISBN: 9781421427683

Subjects--Personal Names:
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.
Baudelaire, Charles.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 --Influence.
Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 --Critique et interpretation.
Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 --Criticism and interpretation.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 --Influence.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 --Influence.
Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867 --Criticism and interpretation.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Het Groteske.
Groteske
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Grotesque in literature.
Grotesque dans la litterature.
Grotesque in literature.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.