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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Ithaca ; London :
Cornell University Press,
[1989]
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| Format: | Electronic |
| Language: | English |
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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 online resource |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781501723315 1501723316 9781501723308 1501723308 |
| Language: | In English. |
| Reproduction Note: | Electronic reproduction. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (Site, viewed 02/09/2021). |
| Action Note: | digitized |