Grotesque Figures: Baudelaire, Rousseau, and the Aesthetics of Modernity (Parallax: Re-visions of Culture and Society)

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 288 pages
• Published by: The Johns Hopkins University Press August 27, 2004
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0801879450
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0801879456
• Book Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 1.2 pounds

Product Review


"Grotesque Figures is an important work that rethinks the boundary between eighteenth and nineteenth century studies, offering nuanced interpretations of Rousseau, Baudelaire, and the modernity they represent." -- French Forum



"This well argued text on pantomime offers a fascinating investigation of a subgenre of British theater." -- Elisabeth Heard, Scriblerian



"A fresh context for looking at Baudelaire." -- Patricia A. Ward, L'Esprit Créateur



"Swain's wonderful explication of 'La Corde' alone is worth the price of the book." -- Johnson Kent Wright, Journal of Modern History



"Her comparative analysis of Rousseau's writings and Baudelaire's prose poems are often breathtakingly original, themselves extraordinary hybrids of the social, the historical, the political, and the poetic." -- Tammy Berberi, Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association



"Swain's reading of Baudelaire's reception of Rousseau is provocative and stimulating." -- Thomas Cooksey, South Atlantic Review

Product Review


"These readings are mature, astute, and gorgeously written analyses of the poems shaped around the central conflict with Rousseau over allegory. They stand on their own as some of the strongest and most persuasive interpretations of the various prose poems that I have seen." -- Ellen Burt, University of California, Irvine