The beauty of Baudelaire : the poet as alternative lawgiver / Roger Pearson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pearson, Roger, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French poetry--19th century--History and criticism.

French poetry.

Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867--Criticism and interpretation.

Baudelaire, Charles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (672 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

A substantial study of the works of Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) that provides fresh and detailed readings of his poetry in verse and prose.

Contents:

Cover

The Beauty of Baudelaire: The Poet as Alternative Lawgiver

Copyright

Dedication

Preface

Acknowledgements

Contents

A Note on References and Abbreviations

Introduction: An Unacknowledged Legislator?

Baudelaire on Trial

Baudelaire as Lawgiver?

Part I: Resistance

1: The Poet of Resistance

The Poet as Contrarian

The Poet as Artist and Outlaw

The Poet as Moralist

The Poet as Nomothete

2: The Poet-Artist as Double Agent

Baudelaire in Context

The Poet-Artist as Double Act

Baudelaire as Comic Artist?

3: The Poet-Artist as Performer

Beauty as 'Ivresse'

Beauty as Resistance

Part II: Melancholy

4: Melancholy and Baudelaire

Melancholy

Baudelaire's Melancholy

Starobinski and Baudelaire

5: Melancholy and Satan

Melancholy and Beauty

Melancholy in Context

'Le Satan de Bénichou'

Melancholy, 'le Malheur', and 'le Mal'

Melancholy and Progress

6: Lesbos and Limbo: Towards Les Fleurs du Mal

Women, Flowers, Wine

From Lesbos to Limbo: 'Fleurs du Mal', or the Melancholy of Desire

Les Limbes (1851): The Melancholy of Non-difference

7: The Beauty of Ill-Being: From Sappho to Satan

'Les Fleurs du Mal' (1855): Towards the Beauty of Melancholy

'Douze poèmes' (1851-2/1857): Enter Satan

Les Fleurs du Mal (1857): 'La Satanica Commedia'?

8: Les Fleurs du Mal (1857/1861): New Beginnings

The 'Architecture' of Les Fleurs du Mal

A New Poetry

'Correspondances'

A New Beauty

9: Les Fleurs du Mal (1857/1861): New Endings

New Frames for Old

'Obsession'

Embracing 'le Mal'

'Le Voyage': The Tree of Desire

10: Melancholy and the Poetic Act: Decomposition and Composition

Part III: Imagination

11: Imagination and Resistance: The Case of Poe

'Edgar Allan Poe, sa vie et ses ouvrages' (1852).

'Notes nouvelles sur Edgar Poe' (1857)

12: The Government of the Imagination: The Salon de 1859

Imagination and Creation

Imagination and Religion

Imagination and Freedom

Imagination and Sculpture

13: Imagination and Conjecture: Gautier and Hugo

Melancholy and Imagination: Beyond Poe

Gautier

Hugo

14: Imagination and Suggestion: Wagner, Guys, Delacroix

Wagner

Guys

Delacroix

Part IV: Poetry in Verse

15: The Poetry of Passion: Sex, Beauty, and Verse

The Nature of 'Love'

The Beauty of 'Love'

'La Chevelure'

The Beauty of Resistance

The Body of the Poem: 'Le Serpent qui danse'

16: The Performance of Melancholy: The Duel and the Waltz

Melancholy versus Beauty

Poems for an Angel

Verse Dance

The Sense of an Ending

17: Versification and the Poetic Idea

18: Poetry in the City: Melancholy and Time in 'Tableaux parisiens'

'Paysage'

The Capital of Melancholy

The Capital of Time

19: The Poet and the City: The Seer as Sightseer in 'Tableaux parisiens'

Seeing

Painting

Part V: Prose Poetry

20: The Inauguration of the Prose Poem

Against Nature, against the Light of Day: 'Le Crépuscule du soir' (1855)

Against Advice: 'La Solitude' (1855)

Alone at Twilight: 'La Solitude' and 'Le Crépuscule du soir' (1862/4)

21: Prose Poetry and the Press: The Poetics of Resistance

Petits Poèmes en prose or Le Spleen de Paris?

Sacred Temple or Butterfly of War? The Feuilleton of La Presse

Collusion or Resistance? The Prose Poem and the Press

22: The Question of Intent: Mystification and Perplexity

Polyphony and Conjecture

Qui parle?

Broken Panes: 'Le Mauvais Vitrier'

23: The Voice of the Stranger: Reality and Imagination

A Double Room of his Own

Cloud-Gazing

24: The Poet in the World: Empathy and Performance.

Public Spaces: Street, Park, Fairground, Boulevard

Resistance Comedy

25: The Beauty of the Prose Poem

Street Art, or the Beauty of Inclusion

Music, or the Beauty of Shape

Life's Harmonies, or the Beauty of Rhythm

Conclusion: Beauty and the Poet as Alternative Lawgiver

Beauty

Lawgiving

The Beauty of Redress

Bibliography

Primary Sources

Baudelaire

Baudelaire's reception

Other Primary Sources

Secondary Sources

Works on Baudelaire

Other

Index

Baudelaire's Poertry in Verse

Collections

Individual Poems

Baudelaire's Prose Poems

Individual Prose Poems

Other Works by Baudelaire

General Index.

Notes:

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [619]-638) and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-265507-8

0-19-192585-3

0-19-265536-1

OCLC:

1267762903