An Atmospherics of the City – Baudelaire and the Poetics of Noise Chambers

An Atmospherics of the CityBaudelaire and the Poetics of Noise\nAuthor(s): Ross Chambers\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823265848, 978-0823265848\nSynopsis\nWhat happens to poetic beauty when history turns the poet from one who contemplates natural beauty and the sublime to one who attempts to reconcile the practice of art with the hustle and noise of the city?\n An Atmospherics of the City traces Charles Baudelaire's evolution from a writer who practices a form of fetishizing aesthetics in which poetry works to beautify the ordinary to one who perceives background noise and disorderthe city's version of a transcendent atmosphereas evidence of the malign work of a transcendent god of time, history, and ultimate destruction.\n Analyzing this shift, particularly as evidenced in Tableaux parisiens and Le Spleen de Paris, Ross Chambers shows how Baudelaire's disenchantment with the politics of his day.