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

by Barbara Spackman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781501723292
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	08/15/2018
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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.

Editorial Reviews

Decadent Genealogies is an important book because it will promote further research into the intricate ties between D’Annunzio and the Futurists.

SubStance - Angela Dalle Vacche

Decadent Genealogies is an important book because it will promote further research into the intricate ties between D'Annunzio and the Futurists.

--Angela Dalle Vacche "SubStance"

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