Baudelaire, Flaubert, and the Formation of French Modernism
by
William Olmsted
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
In 1857 the trials of Flaubert and Baudelaire for offending against religion and public morality drew attention to the features we now associate with literary modernism; but instead of winning praise for their innovations they were indicted for "ideological crimes." With the passage of time...