02427cam a2200373 i 4500 1261921084 TxAuBib 890308s1990||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780300043969 alk. paper 0300043961 alk. paper (OCoLC)5723 DLC eng DLC UKM BAKER BTCTA YDXCP OCLCG BDX OCLCO TXX OCLCF OCLCQ TNG OCL OCLCO OCLCQ TxAuBib rda Paglia, Camille, 1947- Sexual personae. Art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson / / Camille Paglia. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1990. xiv, 718 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 675-700) and index. 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 v. 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 Bront♭ł -- 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. Literature, Modern 19th century History and criticism. Literature, Modern History and criticism. Decadence (Literary movement.) Decadence in literature. Paganism in literature. Sex in literature. Paganism in art. Romanticism. Sex in art. Arts. Arts Special subjects Sexuality History. Criticism, interpretation, etc.