Baudelaire

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 Portrait of the Artist in 1846 2 ‘L’Individualisme bien entendu’ and the Salon de 1846, 3 ‘La Vaporisation du Moi : Baudelaire’s Journaux intimes PART 2: 4 On the Meaning of Great Men: Baudelaire and Emerson Revisited 5 Heroism, Dandyism and the ‘Philosophy of Clothes’: Baudelaire and Carlyle 6 Maistre and Baudelaire Re-examined 7 Baudelaire and Giuseppe Ferrari: History and Dandyism 8 Baudelaire in the Light of Chevreul’s Theory: Colour, Contrast, Analogy and Abstraction