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Decadent Genealogies: The Rhetoric Of Sickness From Baudelaire To D’Annunzio

By Barbara Spackman

Book information

Publisher
Cornell University Press
Year
1989
ISBN
1501723294, 9781501723292, 0801422906, 9780801422904, 1501723308, 9781501723308
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6334114 bytes)
Edition
1st Edition
Pages
237\237
Time added
2020-08-02 17:10:45
Decadence (Literary Movement)Decadence In LiteratureLiteratureLiterature: Modern: 19th Century: History And CritLiterature: Psychological AspectsMental Illness In LiteratureModern: 20th Century: History And Criticism

Description

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. Decadent Genealogies......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 [1] The Island of Normalcy......Page 18 [2] The Scene of Convalescence......Page 50 [3] The Shadow of Lombroso......Page 122 [4] Pandora's Box......Page 169 Afterword Alibis......Page 228 Index......Page 234

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