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Decadent Genealogies: The Rhetoric of Sickness from Baudelaire to D'Annunzio
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Decadent Genealogies: The Rhetoric of Sickness from Baudelaire to D'Annunzio

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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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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Country
United States
Date
15 August 2018
Pages
232
ISBN
9781501723292

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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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Country
United States
Date
15 August 2018
Pages
232
ISBN
9781501723292