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

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

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Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0801422906
ISBN13: 9780801422904
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: Nov 9 1989
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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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