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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Auteur principal: Spackman, Barbara (auth)
Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
Langue:anglais
Publié: Ithaca Cornell University Press 1989
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 electronic resource (232 p.)
ISBN:83km-n712
9781501723308
9780801422904
9781501723315
9781501723292
Accès:Open Access