Decadent Genealogies The Rhetoric of Sickness from Baudelaire to D'Annunzio
Barbara Spackman here examines the ways in which decadent writers adopted the language of physiological illness and alteration as a figure for psychic otherness. By means of an ideological and rhetorical analysis of scientific as well as literary texts, she shows how the rhetoric of sickness provide...
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| Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
| Language: | English |
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Ithaca
Cornell University Press
1989
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| Summary: | Barbara Spackman here examines the ways in which decadent writers adopted the language of physiological illness and alteration as a figure for psychic otherness. By means of an ideological and rhetorical analysis of scientific as well as literary texts, she shows how the rhetoric of sickness provided the male decadent writer with an alibi for the occupation and appropriation of the female body. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 electronic resource (232 p.) |
| ISBN: | 83km-n712 9781501723308 9780801422904 9781501723315 9781501723292 |
| Access: | Open Access |