The Cambridge companion to Baudelaire / edited by Rosemary Lloyd.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lloyd, Rosemary, editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to literature.

Cambridge companions to literature

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867--Criticism and interpretation--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Baudelaire, Charles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 234 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Charles Baudelaire's place among the great poets of the Western world is undisputed, and his influence on the development of poetry since his lifetime has been enormous. In this Companion, essays by outstanding scholars illuminate Baudelaire's writing both for the lay reader and for specialists. In addition to a survey of his life and a study of his social context, the volume includes essays on his verse and prose, analyzing the extraordinary power and effectiveness of his language and style, his exploration of intoxicants like wine and opium, and his art and literary criticism. The volume also discusses the difficulties, successes and failures of translating his poetry and his continuing power to move his readers. Featuring a guide to further reading and a chronology, this Companion provides students and scholars of Baudelaire and of nineteenth-century French and European literature with a comprehensive and stimulating overview of this extraordinary poet.

Contents:

Charles Baudelaire, a life in writing / John E. Jackson

Baudelaire's politics / Dolf Oehler

Baudelaire's poetic journey in Les fleurs du mal / Barbara Wright

Baudelaire's versification : conservative or radical? / Rachel Killick

The prose poems / Sonya Stephens

Baudelairean ethics / Edward K. Kaplan

Baudelaire's Paris / Ross Chambers

Baudelaire and intoxicants / E.S. Burt

Art and its representation / J.A. Hiddleston

Music and theatre / Margaret Miner

Baudelaire's literary criticism / Rosemary Lloyd

Baudelaire's place in literary and cultural history / Beryl Schlossman

A woman reading Baudelaire / Mary Ann Caws

Translating Baudelaire / Clive Scott

The stroll and preparation for departure / Judith Vollmer

Afterword / Claude Pichois.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-81715-9

1-139-00076-4