The Beauty of Baudelaire The Poet As Alternative Lawgiver.

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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