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Sexual personae.Camille Paglia.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven : Yale University Press, (c)1990.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 718 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780300182132
Other title:
  • Art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN751 .S498 1990
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Includes bibliographies and index.

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chapter 1 Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art""; ""Chapter 2 The Birth of the Western Eye""; ""Chapter 3 Apollo and Dionysus""; ""Chapter 4 Pagan Beauty""; ""Chapter 5 Renaissance Form: Italian Art""; ""Chapter 6 Spenser and Apollo: The Faerie Queene""; ""Chapter 7 Shakespeare and Dionysus: As You Like It and Antony and Cleopatra""; ""Chapter 8 Return of the Great Mother: Rousseau vs. Sade""; ""Chapter 9 Amazons, Mothers, Ghosts: Goethe to Gothic""; ""Chapter 10 Sex Bound and Unbound: Blake""

""Chapter 11 Marriage to Mother Nature: Wordsworth""""Chapter 12 The Daemon as Lesbian Vampire: Coleridge""; ""Chapter 13 Speed and Space: Byron""; ""Chapter 14 Light and Heat: Shelley and Keats""; ""Chapter 15 Cults of Sex and Beauty: Balzac""; ""Chapter 16 Cults of Sex and Beauty: Gautier, Baudelaire, and Huysmans""; ""Chapter 17 Romantic Shadows: Emily Brontë""; ""Chapter 18 Romantic Shadows: Swinburne and Pater""; ""Chapter 19 Apollo Daemonized: Decadent Art""; ""Chapter 20 The Beautiful Boy as Destroyer: Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray""

""Chapter 21 The English Epicene: Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest""""Chapter 22 American Decadents: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville""; ""Chapter 23 American Decadents: Emerson, Whitman, James""; ""Chapter 24 Amherst's Madame de Sade: Emily Dickinson""; ""Notes""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""

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