Series: Idiom: Inventing Writing Theory

Baudelaire’s Shadow explores the complex and multifaceted work of Baudelaire, whose fame and notoriety have often been reduced to simplified profiles: the poet of the modern city, of erotic obsession, of Satanic revolt, of colonial fantasies, of mystical correspondences, and of corporeal decay. But what binds these facets of his work together? Is there a logic that underpins the proliferation...