Sexual personae

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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.

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Full title :Sexual personae. / Camille Paglia.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1990

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Yale University Press
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1990

The Physical Object

Description:xiv, 718 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0300043961, 9780300043969
oclc:ocm19554509
LC Classification:PN751
Dewey Decimal:809/.03

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 Brontë -- 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.

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Art érotique Arts Criticism, interpretation, etc Decadence (Literary movement) Décadence dans la littérature Decadence in literature Decadentie Décadentisme Erotic Art Erotiek Literaire thema's Literature, Modern Literature, Modern -- 19th century Literature, Modern -- History and criti… Literature, Modern -- History and criti… Littérature -- Histoire et critique Littérature -- Histoire et critique. --… Paganism in art Paganism in literature Paganisme dans l'art