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Seeing Double : Baudelaire's Modernity.
The poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) has been labeled the very icon of modernity, the scribe of the modern city, and an observer of an emerging capitalist culture. Seeing Double reconsiders this iconic literary figure and his fraught relationship with the nineteenth-century world by examining the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago, IL :
University of Chicago Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) has been labeled the very icon of modernity, the scribe of the modern city, and an observer of an emerging capitalist culture. Seeing Double reconsiders this iconic literary figure and his fraught relationship with the nineteenth-century world by examining the way in which he viewed the increasing dominance of modern life. In doing so, it revises some of our most common assumptions about the unresolved tensions that emerged in Baudelaire's writing during a time of political and social upheaval. Françoise Meltzer argues that Baudelaire did not simply desc. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (275 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780226519876 0226519872 9786613362704 6613362700 1283362708 9781283362702 |