Decadent Genealogies: The Rhetoric of Sickness from Baudelaire to D'Annunzio by Barbara Spackman
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 sickne...
Genre: Fiction, Professional & Technical, Medicine, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory, Science & Maths, Gay & Lesbian, Literary Criticism / Size: 232 pages / Free from 08 February 2020