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

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 provide...

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Main Author: Spackman, Barbara, 1952- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Cornell University Press, [1989]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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