Baudelaire and the Second Republic: Writing and Revolution

ISBN-13: 9780198154693 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 400 str.

Richard D. E. Burton

Opis

This book is the first fully comprehensive study of Baudelaire's actions, reactions, and writings from the Revolution of February 1848 to the Bonapartist coup d'etat of December 1851. From the biographical, textual, and contextual evidence presented, a picture emerges of Baudelaire as a consistent radical republican. A book which traces in detail the links between literary texts and socio-political contexts, Baudelaire and the Second Revolution will appeal to students and scholars of Baudelaire and of mid-nineteenth-century French politics and society.
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Recenzje

'Richard Burton;s fine new book on Baudelaire offers us intellectual history of a high order, based upon close textual reading, careful synthesis of the most recent political and literary scholarship and serious and unusual attention to milieu. Burton marshals an impressive array of contemporary political and cultural resources ... the book must be read in future for any scholar or graduate student seeking a mature and careful understanding of the political consciousness of French literary life in the nineteenth century.' Janine Hartman, University of Cincinnati, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Volume 21, Numbers 3 & 4, Spring-Summer 1993