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

• Tác giả: Barbara Spackman
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN: 83km-n712
• ISBN-13: 978-0801422904
• ISBN-13: 978-1501723292
• ISBN-13: 978-1501723308
• ISBN-13: 978-1501723315
• Thông tin xuất bản: Ithaca Cornell University Press 1989
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 electronic resource (232 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 345072
• Chủ đề: 1. History of medicine; 2. Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; 3. Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Tóm tắt

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.