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Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire's Aesthetic Architecture of Revolt
An Axial Analysis
Sonya Isaak
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Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire's Aesthetic Architecture of Revolt
An Axial Analysis
Sonya Isaak
About This Book
This study is essential reading for those interested in cross-cultural nineteenth century literary developments. It introduces a novel axial methodology used to perform a comparative analysis of seminal works by Edgar Allan Poe and Charles Baudelaire. Laying bare uncanny affinities of these writers, this book traces their strikingly similar generic innovations, exploring how they revised antiquated notions of Romanticism, anticipating Modernism. Baudelaire casts the American author as a Byronic dandy, assuring Poe's lasting reputation. But does Baudelaire owe more to Poe than previously assumed? Was Baudelaire's Poe a convenient palimpsest for the French writer's own self-invention, or did Poe cast a shadow on his disciple, fostering an anxiety of influence? The study examines when Baudelaire emulated his mentor and when he subverted Poe's influence. The axial methodology proposed should prove useful for professors and students who want to compare other aesthetic works.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Titel
- Imprint
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One: Exploring the Context
- I Edgar Allan Poeās American Identity in Question
- II Baudelaireās Polyglot Identity
- III Baudelaireās Fascination with Poe
- Part Two: Exploring the Aesthetic Affinities of Poe and Baudelaire
- I The Anti-Mimetic Art of Imaginative Recollection (Inventatio over Imitatio)
- II āLāArt pour lāArtā and Poetry for Poetry
- III The Aesthetics of Self-Invention
- IV Constructing an Aesthetic Ideal
- V An Architecture of Aesthetic Spaces
- VI Existential Conflict in the Quest for the Ideal
- VII Poe and the Quest for the Ideal: Eldorado as an Aesthetic Odyssey
- Part Three: Exploring Artistic Craftsmanship: Poe and Baudelaireās Innovative āArchitectureā as a Revolt Against Established Generic Norms
- I The Vade Mecums
- II Brevities as Genre Expansion: Poeās āMarginaliaā and Baudelaireās āMon coeur mis Ć nu and FusĆ©esā
- III Prose versus Poetry
- IV Baudelaireās Appropriation and Expansion of Poeās Genre Innovations
- Conclusion
- Table of Figures [All illustrations by the author]
- Works Cited
- Appendix 1 Interview with Curators of āLāOEil de Baudelaireā [English Translation], September 19, 2016
- Appendix 2 Interview with Curators of Ā«LāOEil de BaudelaireĀ» [French Original], le 19 Septembre, 2016
- Index
- Backcover