Grotesque Figures : Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity /
Virginia E. Swain.
- 1 online resource (288 pages): illustrations
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- 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."