Seeing double : Baudelaire's modernity /
Meltzer, Françoise.
Chicago, Ill. ; London : University of Chicago Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Beliefs (assommons les pauvres!) -- Homo duplex -- More duplexities -- Maistre -- Proudhon's spirits of contradiction -- Splitting the difference: the poem -- Appendix: "assommons les pauvres!" -- Seeing (a une passante) -- The will to know -- Images and afterimages: the poem -- Certainty -- Scopic syllepsis -- Which is the real one? -- Optical gaps -- Energy: the baroque -- Appendix: "a une passante" -- Money (la chambre double) -- Expenditure -- Words pay no debts -- Depletion: the poem -- Reversibility -- Which room is counterfeit? -- The other side of the coin -- Appendix: "la chambre double" -- Time (harmonie du soir) -- God, graves, and scholars -- In memory of the present -- Angels doing time -- Harmonics: the poem -- And time and the world are ever in flight -- Appendix: "harmonie du soir."
Baudelaire, Charles, 1821-1867