Baudelaire and the Aesthetics of Bad FaithThis is a study of Baudelaire's canonization in the critical debates of the twentieth century, focusing particularly on his role in the development of a modernist consciousness. Much recent work on Baudelaire assumes his modernism by emphasizing his relationship to current critical preoccupationsby sounding him out on issues of race and gender, for example, or by "correcting" his politics. The author begins from the premise that this updating of