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Grotesque Figures: Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity - Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society Swain, Virginia E. (Associate Professor of French, Dartmouth College)
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Grotesque Figures: Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity - Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society
Swain, Virginia E. (Associate Professor of French, Dartmouth College)
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.
288 pages, 3 Line drawings, black and white; 7 Halftones, black and white
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 3, 2004 |
| ISBN13 | 9780801879456 |
| Publishers | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Pages | 288 |
| Dimensions | 161 × 238 × 23 mm · 516 g |
| Language | English |