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) - Books - Johns Hopkins University Press - 9780801879456 - December 3, 2004
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Grotesque Figures: Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity - Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society


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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  

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