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...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Ithaca
Cornell University Press
[1989], 1989
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | |
| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Preface / Barbara Spackman
- The island of normalcy
- The scene of convalescence -The shadow of Lombroso
- Pandora's box
- Afterword alibis