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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[1989]
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