Sexual Personae: Art And Decadence From Nefertiti To Emily Dickinson

Discusses The Works Of Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare, Rousseau, De Sade, Goethe, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Balzac, Gautier, Baudelaire, Huysmans, Emily Bronte, Swinburne, Oscar Wilde, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Whitman, Henry James, And Emily Dickinson. Sex And Violence, Or Nature And Art -- The Birth Of The Western Eye -- Apollo And Dionysus -- Pagan Beauty -- Renaissance Form: Italian Art -- Spenser And Apollo: The Faerie Queene -- Shakespeare And Dionysus: As You Like It And Antony And Cleopatra -- Return Of The Great Mother: Rousseau Vs. Sade -- Amazons, Mothers, Ghosts: Goethe To Gothic -- Sex Bound And Unbound: Blake -- Marriage To Mother Nature: Wordsworth -- The Daemon As Lesbian Vampire: Coleridge -- Speed And Space: Byron -- Light And Heat: Shelley And Keats -- Cults Of Sex And Beauty: Balzac -- Cults Of Sex And Beauty: Gautier, Baudelaire, And Huysmans -- Romantic Shadows: Emily Bronte -- Romantic Shadows: Swinburne And Pater -- Apollo Daemonized: Decadent Art -- The Beautiful Boy As Destroyer: Wilde's The Picture Of Dorian Gray -- The English Epicene: Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest -- American Decadents: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville -- American Decadents: Emerson, Whitman, James -- Amherst's Madame De Sade: Emily Dickinson. Camille Paglia. Reprint. Originally Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1990. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 675-700) And Index.

Author : Camille Paglia

Publisher : Vintage Books

Published Year : 1991

Edition : 1

Format : print - Paperback, 718 pages

Subject : Literature, Modern--History and criticism, Literature, Modern--19th century--History and criticism, Decadence (Literary movement), Paganism in literature, Sex in literature, Paganism in art, Romanticism, Sex in art, Arts, PN751 .P34 1991, 809/.03, 17.93

Language : Eng English

Dimensions : xiv, 718 p. ; 21 cm.

ISBN : 0679735798

ISBN13 : 9780679735793

Overview :

From ancient Egypt through the nineteenth century, Sexual Personae explores the provocative connections between art and pagan ritual; between Emily Dickinson and the Marquis de Sade; between Lord Byron and Elvis Presley. It ultimately challenges the cultural assumptions of both conservatives and traditional liberals. 47 photographs.

From ancient Egypt through the nineteenth century, Sexual Personae explores the provocative connections between art and pagan ritual; between Emily Dickinson and the Marquis de Sade; between Lord Byron and Elvis Presley. It ultimately challenges the cultural assumptions of both conservatives and traditional liberals. 47 photographs.