Decadent Genealogies

The Rhetoric of Sickness from Baudelaire to D'Annunzio

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Spackman, Barbara
Language
English
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Abstract
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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https://doab-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12854/163360
Keywords
Literature: history and criticism; History of medicine; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers; thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSB Literary studies: general::DSBF Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; thema EDItEUR::M Medicine and Nursing::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine
DOI
10.7298/83km-n712
ISBN
9781501723308, 9780801422904, 9781501723315, 9781501723292
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Publisher website
cornellpress.cornell.edu
Publication date and place
Ithaca, 1989
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Cornell University Press
Pages
232