Baudelaire, Emerson, and the French-American Connection

This book enhances our understanding of France and the United States by focusing on their intercultural relations. Baudelaire and Emerson have at the core of their thinking the very notion of how to reconcile individual and collective experience, a theme that is pervasive in French-American relations. A historical perspective to contemporary issues regarding the French-American connection helps us to come to terms with some of the pressing problems currently facing France and the United States and to view some key literary texts in a new light.

Dudley M. Marchi received his PhD in comparative literature from Columbia University. He has been a faculty member of North Carolina State University since 1989 and is currently Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Associate Department Head of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. His research focuses on European and American literature in historical and cultural contexts. He has published articles and book reviews on such authors as Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Charles Baudelaire and Michel de Montaigne and a book, Montaigne among the Moderns: Receptions of the Essais. His teaching focuses on masterpieces of Western literature, French literature, history and culture and second-language acquisition.

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