"A slap in the face for old Mother Nature"
Disease, Debility, and Decay in Huysmans's A Rebours
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15014635 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ludmilla Jordanova (0000-0003-0738-1793, University of York, corresponding author), L J Jordanova |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 112-128 |
| Publication date | 1996-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Literature and medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0278-9671 • E-ISSN: 1080-6571 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/lm.1996.0006 |
| PMID | 8728280 |
| OpenAlex | W2047946201 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
Jordanova discusses the connections between medicine and nature through an analysis of Joris-Karl Huysmans's nineteenth century novel A Rebours (Against Nature), which she calls one of the "most virulent pieces of writing against nature" ever published. Jordanova argues that A Rebours is written as a case history that radially destabilizes, if somewhat ambivalently, the relationship between health and nature. It exhibits no healing powers in nature; instead it systematically denigrates nature as a feminized domain
Aesthetics · Debility · Linguistics · Psychoanalysis · Historical and Scientific Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |