wyszukanych pozycji: 3
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The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
ISBN: 9781890951078 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 1096 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) In France at the end of the nineteenth century, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture as the twentieth century came to a close resonate strikingly with those of the last fin-de-siecle: crime, pollution, sexually transmitted diseases, gender confusion, moral depravity, alcoholism, and tobacco and drug use were topics of popular discussion then as now.The Decadent Reader is a collection of novels and stories from fin-de-siecle France that celebrate decline, aestheticize decay, and take pleasure in... In France at the end of the nineteenth century, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obses... |
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159,64 |
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Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
ISBN: 9781408822357 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) A groundbreaking new book about the nineteenth century obsession with hysteria, focussing on the renowned Salpetriere Hospital in Paris.
A groundbreaking new book about the nineteenth century obsession with hysteria, focussing on the renowned Salpetriere Hospital in Paris.
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Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris
ISBN: 9780393025606 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa w 2026 r.) But who were Blanche, Augustine, and Genevieve? What role did they play in their own peculiar form of stardom? And what exactly were they suffering from? Hysteria--with its dramatic seizures, hallucinations, and reenactments of past traumas--may be an illness of the past, but the notions of femininity that lie behind it offer insights into disorders of the present.
But who were Blanche, Augustine, and Genevieve? What role did they play in their own peculiar form of stardom? And what exactly were they suffering fr...
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190,05 |