ABSTRACT

"These essays take Baudelaire seriously as a thinker. Bernard Howells explores the problematics surrounding individualism and history in a number of prose texts, and situates Baudelaire within the broader contexts of nineteenth-century historical, cultural and artistic speculation, represented by Emerson, Carlyle, Joseph de Maistre, Giuseppe Ferrari and Eugene Chevreul."

part 1|82 pages

La Fanfarlo—Salon de 1846—Journaux intimes

part 2|117 pages

Baudelaire and Emerson—Carlyle—Maistre—Ferrari—Chevreul