Sexual personae. Art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Sexual personae. Art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson /

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Online Access:	Access full-text online via JSTOR
Author / Contributor:	Paglia, Camille, 1947- (Author)
Imprint:	New Haven : Yale University Press, [1990]
Format:	Electronic
Language:	English
Subjects:	Literature, Modern > 19th century > History and criticism. Decadence (Literary movement) Decadence in literature. Paganism in literature. Paganism in art. Romanticism. Arts. Electronic books.

Table of Contents:

Preface
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.