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

232 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics lgbtqia+ literary medium-paced
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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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