
Grotesque Figures
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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.
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Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Grotesque: Definitions and Figures
2. Rococo Rhetoric: Figures of the Past in "Le Poème 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: "Opéra" and "Les Yeux des pauvres"
7. Rousseau, Trauma, and Fetishism: "Le Vieux Saltimbanque"
Conclusion
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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