Yale French Studies, Number 125/126: Time for Baudelaire (Poetry, Theory, History) (Yale French Studies Series)

by E.S. Burt, Elissa Marder, Kevin Newmark

Time for Baudelaire suggests it’s time that Yale French Studies devote an issue to the poet who more than any other inaugurated the unfinished epoch of modernity. It also urges that we take or make time for thinking about the specific ways in which poetry―and perhaps poetry alone―allows a historical concept like modernity to become accessible in the first place. Finally, it asks what time means when it comes to reading the relation between Baudelaire’s writings and the moment, the event, the era―and our capacity to experience them together or in isolation from one another.

232 pages, Paperback

First published June 24, 2014

About the author

E. S. Burt is Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Irvine.