Decadent Genealogies

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Decadent Genealogies is written by Barbara Spackman and published by Cornell University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1501723308 (ISBN 10) and 9781501723308 (ISBN 13).

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.