Year: 2018
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: 4} Pa ndora's BoxTransgressions Neither Baudelairean nor Lombrosian, the rhetoric of sick ness as applied to the upper-class fe male body might be labeled specifically D'Annunzian, for it constitutes the erotic discourse of the Romanzi delta Rosa .Convalescence appears once again, and once again as the identity of the convalescent is altered, so too is the ideology thus embodied .The sickness from which the upper-class fe male character conva lesces is often of a specifically fe male sort, as Mario Praz has noted in The Romantic Agony:
Source: Cornell University Press eBooks
Author: Barbara Spackman
Language: English
Subfield: General Arts and Humanities
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W3086884435