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mods: 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, Mod…