The Rhetoric of Sickness from Baudelaire to D'Annunzio
by
Barbara Spackman
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
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...