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

Barbara Spackman

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

Barbara Spackman

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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 ...

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