Ebook: Decadent Genealogies: The Rhetoric Of Sickness From Baudelaire To D’Annunzio
Author: Barbara Spackman
- Tags: Decadence (Literary Movement) Decadence In Literature Mental Illness In Literature Literature: Modern: 19th Century: History And Criticism Literature Modern: 20th Century: History And Criticism Literature: Psychological Aspects
- Year: 1989
- Publisher: Cornell University Press
- Edition: 1st Edition
- Language: English
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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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