Taboo

Corporeal Secrets in Nineteenth-century France

Hannah Thompson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

168 Seiten

2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-60169-0 (ISBN)

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This book mobilizes the unexplored interpretative and critical potential of the taboo as a way of reading accounts of the body in nineteenth-century French fiction. It shows that the taboo bodies hidden in realist texts are amongst their most articulate.

Hannah Thompson

Introduction the Taboo in Theory Part I: The Body 1. Secrets and Suggestions: The Silenced Sexuality of Sand and Rachilde 2. Diagnosing the Female Body: Illness and the Imaginary in Zola's Lourdes 3. War and the Wounded Body: The Male, the Manly, and the Masculine in Tales of the Franco-Prussian War Part II: The Reader 4. Savage Poetry: Cruelty, Torture, and Sadism 5. Metaphors of the Monstrous: The Case of Victor Hugo 6. The Truth Will Out: National and Personal Trauma in Zola's Vérité 7. Conclusion: A Corporeal Secret

Erscheinungsdatum	01.07.2020
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	174 x 246 mm
Gewicht	310 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-367-60169-9 / 0367601699
ISBN-13	978-0-367-60169-0 / 9780367601690
Zustand	Neuware