Seeing Double Baudelaire's Modernity - Meltzer, Françoise (University of Chicago Press, 2011)
Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Beliefs (Assommons les pauvres!); Homo Duplex; More Duplexities; Maistre; Proudhon's Spirits of Contradiction; Splitting the Difference: The Poem; Appendix: "Assommons les pauvres!"; 2. 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"; 3. Money (La chambre double); Expenditure; "Words Pay No Debts"; Depletion: The Poem; Reversibility; Which Room Is Counterfeit?; The Other Side of the Coin