Awards

• Winner of Shortlisted, R. Gapper Book Prize, Society for French Studies.

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Author:   Roger Pearson (Emeritus Professor of French, University of Oxford; Emeritus Fellow, The Queen's College, Oxford)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 4.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   1.104kg
ISBN:  

9780192843319

ISBN 10:   0192843311
Pages:   672
Publication Date:   16 September 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction: An Unacknowledged Legislator? PART I RESISTANCE 1: The Poet of Resistance 2: The Poet-Artist as Double Agent 3: The Poet-Artist as Performer PART II MELANCHOLY 4: Melancholy and Baudelaire 5: Melancholy and Satan 6: Lesbos and Limbo: Towards Les Fleurs du Mal 7: The Beauty of Ill-Being: From Sappho to Satan 8: Les Fleurs du Mal (1857/1861): New Beginnings 9: Les Fleurs du Mal (1857/1861): New Endings 10: Melancholy and the Poetic Act: Decomposition and Composition PART III IMAGINATION 11: Imagination and Resistance: The Case of Poe 12: The Government of the Imagination: The Salon de 1859 13: Imagination and Conjecture: Gautier and Hugo 14: Imagination and Suggestion: Wagner, Guys, Delacroix PART IV POETRY IN VERSE 15: The Poetry of Passion: Sex, Beauty, and Verse 16: The Performance of Melancholy: The Duel and the Waltz 17: Versification and the Poetic Idea 18: Poetry in the City: Melancholy and Time in 'Tableaux parisiens' 19: The Poet and the City: The Seer as Sightseer in 'Tableaux parisiens' PART V PROSE POETRY 20: The Inauguration of the Prose Poem 21: Prose Poetry and the Press: The Poetics of Resistance 22: The Question of Intent: Mystification and Perplexity 23: The Voice of the Stranger: Reality and Imagination 24: The Poet in the World: Empathy and Performance 25: The Beauty of the Prose Poem Conclusion: Beauty and the Poet as Alternative Lawgiver

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This remarkable book provides a new and detailed reading of the entire corpus of Baudelaire (1821-67): Les Fleurs du Mal, Le Spleen de Paris, and his critical essays on literature and the creative arts. It is an invitation to return to the text, to discover or rediscover a writer too often categorized as an apolitical dandy burdened by melancholia and dedicated to the pursuit of art for art's sake. * C. B. Kerr, CHOICE *

This remarkable book provides a new and detailed reading of the entire corpus of Baudelaire (1821-67): Les Fleurs du Mal, Le Spleen de Paris, and his critical essays on literature and the creative arts. It is an invitation to return to the text, to discover or rediscover a writer too often categorized as an apolitical dandy burdened by melancholia and dedicated to the pursuit of art for art's sake. * C. B. Kerr, CHOICE * This may be the modern Baudelaire book we all need- it navigates a summary of the writing about and thinking on Baudelaire, while offering an up-to-date vision of Baudelaire's poeisis. * Helen Abbott, Nineteenth Century French Studies *

Author Information

Roger Pearson is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Oxford and Emeritus Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford. His research is focused on French literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His publications include monographs on Stendhal, Voltaire, and Mallarmé, a biography of Voltaire, and translations of Voltaire, Zola, and Maupassant. His previous book, Unacknowledged Legislators: The Poet as Lawgiver in Post-Revolutionary France (2016), was awarded the R. Gapper Prize by the Society for French Studies. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.

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