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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spackman, Barbara, author.

en Book Program, National Endowment for the Humanities Op, Author.

Contributor:

en Book Program, funder.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Decadence (Literary movement).

Decadence in literature.

Mental illness in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cornell University Press 2018

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Barbara Spackman is Professor of Italian Studies and Comparative Literature and holder of the Giovanni and Ruth Elizabeth Cecchetti Chair in Italian Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Fascist Virilities: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Social Fantasy in Italy, winner of the Howard R. Marraro and Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prizes for Italian Literary Studies given by the MLA.

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781501723308

1501723308

OCLC:

1028953144