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

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Barbara Spackman
2018
Published by: Cornell University Press
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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 texts, she shows how the rhetoric of sickness provided the male decadent writer with an alibi for the occupation and appropriation of the female body.

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 provided the male decadent writer with an alibi for the occupation and appropriation of the female body.

Table of Contents

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Cover

Title Page, Copyright

pp. i-iv

Contents

pp. v-vi

Preface

pp. vii-xvi

[1] The Island of Normalcy

pp. 1-32

[2] The Scene of Convalescence

pp. 33-104

[3] The Shadow of Lombroso

pp. 105-151

[4] Pandora's Box

pp. 152-210

Afterword Alibis

pp. 211-216

Index

pp. 217-220
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