Baudelaire’s Ironic Lighthouse: Poem as Image, Poem into Image

JENNIFER YEE is Professor of Literature in French at the University of Oxford. She has published three monographs on colonialism and orientalism: Clichés de la femme exotique: un regard sur la littérature coloniale française entre 1871 et 1914 (2000); Exotic Subversions in Nineteenth-Century French Fiction (2008); and The Colonial Comedy: Imperialism in the French Realist Novel (2016). She has co-edited the volumes France and “Indochina”: Cultural Representations (2005) and French Decadence in a Global Context (2022). Her current research is oriented toward connections between the verbal and visual arts, and she has published articles on Baudelaire’s aesthetic theories.