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

by Spackman, Barbara

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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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  • Nov 9, 1989 Pub Date:
  • 0801422906 ISBN-10:
  • 9780801422904 ISBN-13:
  • English Language
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