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

Barbara Spackman

Published by Cornell University Press 1989

Decadent Genealogies

The Rhetoric of Sickness from Baudelaire to D'Annunzio

Barbara Spackman
Funded by: National Endowment for the Humanities Open Book Program

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501723308

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About this book

Barbara Spackman here examines the ways in which decadent writers adopted the language of physiological illness and alteration as a figure for psychic otherness.

Author / Editor information

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.

Reviews

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.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface Open Access Download PDF	vii
[1] The Island of Normalcy Open Access Download PDF	1
[2] The Scene of Convalescence Open Access Download PDF	33
[3] The Shadow of Lombroso Open Access Download PDF	105
[4] Pandora's Box Open Access Download PDF	152
Afterword Alibis Open Access Download PDF	211
Index Open Access Download PDF	217

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 232
Keywords: Europe; Literary Studies; Medicine & Medical Issues

eBook

Published: March 15, 2018
ISBN: 9781501723308