Sexual personae art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson Paglia, Camille 1947- creator author. text bibliography Nonfiction. Criticism, interpretation, etc. nyu 1991 1st Vintage books ed. monographic eng print xiv, 718 pages : black and white illustrations ; 21 cm 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 (pages 675-700) and index. Sex in literature Sex in art Decadence (Literary movement) Paganism in literature Literature, Modern 19th century History and criticism Literature, Modern History and criticism Paganism in art Romanticism Arts Literature, Modern 19th century History and criticism Literature, Modern History and criticism Decadence (Literary movement) Paganism in literature Sex in literature Romanticism Sex in art Arts Littérature 19e siècle Histoire et critique Littérature 20e siècle Histoire et critique Décadentisme Paganisme dans la littérature Sexualité dans la littérature Paganisme dans l'art Romantisme Sexualité dans l'art Arts romanticism (form of expression) 17.93 themes and motives in literature Arts Decadence (Literary movement) Literature, Modern Paganism in art Paganism in literature Romanticism Sex in art Sex in literature Englisch Erotik Erotische Kunst Literatur Sexualität Sexualverhalten Literaire thema's Seksualiteit Decadentie Sekseverschillen Erotiek Erotik <Motiv> 1800-1899 fast PN751 .P34 1991 809/.03 PN 751 P138s 17.93 HG 130 77.85 0679735798 9780679735793 91050024 http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780679735793.pdf http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random044/91050024.html http://www.gbv.de/dms/bowker/toc/9780679735793.pdf http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random044/91050024.html DLC 910117 20250213153544.6 in00004813507 eng