| Autor: |
Aina Marti-Balcells |
| Jazyk: |
English<br />French |
| Rok vydání: |
2021 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Essays in French Literature and Culture, Vol 58, Pp 33-50 (2021) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
1835-7040 |
| Popis: |
This article shows how Bénédict Morel’s degeneration theory underlays Eugène Viollet-le-Duc’s architectural discourses. It illustrates how notions that originated in medical and scientific fields such as racial degeneration and the concept of human type were appropriated by Viollet-Le-Duc and used as critical tools to create a theory of domestic architecture while also fuelling his attack on Second-Empire domestic designs. Thus, on the one hand, this article contributes to scholarship on the influence of medicine and science in the work of Viollet-Le-Duc. On the other hand, it adds to the field of the Medical Humanities by providing a comparative discourse analysis between medical and architectural theories |
| Databáze: |
Directory of Open Access Journals |
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