Sexual personae

by Paglia, Camille

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Title Statements

Full title :Sexual personae. / Camille Paglia.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1990.

Publication Statements

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

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiv, 718 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780300182132, 0300182139, 1283950162, 9781283950169
oclc:ocn833361132
LC Classification:PN751
Dewey Decimal:809/.03

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 -…

Subjects

Arts BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary Criticism, interpretation, etc Decadence (Literary movement) Décadence dans la littérature Decadence in literature Décadentisme HISTORY -- World Literature, Modern Literature, Modern -- History and criti… Literature, Modern -- History and criti… Littérature -- Histoire et critique. --… Paganism in art Paganism in literature Paganisme dans l'art Paganisme dans la littérature Romanticism romanticism (form of expression) romantisme Sex in art