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

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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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Spackman, Barbara, author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press 2018
[2018]
Subjects:
Decadence (Literary movement).
Decadence in literature.
Mental illness in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433082706719
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • [1] The Island of Normalcy
  • [2] The Scene of Convalescence
  • [3] The Shadow of Lombroso
  • [4] Pandora's Box
  • Afterword Alibis
  • Index

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