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Faces of degeneration: a European disorder, c. 1848-c.1918
by Pick, Daniel
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Faces of degeneration: a European disorder, c.1848-c.1918
by Pick, Daniel
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This book investigates the specific conception and descent of a language of 'degeneration' from 1848-1918, with particular reference to France, Italy and England. Daniel Pick shows how in the refraction and wake of evolution and naturalism, new images and theories of atavism, 'd…
Faces of degeneration: a European disorder, c.1848-c.1918
by Pick, Daniel
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"In this work, Daniel Pick explores the conception and descent of a language of degeneration from c. 1848 to c. 1918, with particular reference to France, Italy and England. Drawing on extensive primary literature in medico-psychiatry, criminal anthropology, social criticism and…
Faces of degeneration: a European disorder, c.1848-c.1918
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"The first generation of Russian modernists experienced a profound sense of anxiety resulting from the belief that they were living in an age of decline. The premised it on a decadent view of history according to which every culture passes through the stages of growth, stagnatio…
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 rhetori…
Five Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: modernity, avant-garde, decadence, kitsch, and postmodernism. The concept of modernity--the notion that we, the living,…
Five Faces of Modernity is a series of semantic and cultural biographies of words that have taken on special significance in the last century and a half or so: modernity, avant-garde, decadence, kitsch, and postmodernism. The concept of modernity--the notion that we, the living,…
