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Sexual Personae Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

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ISBN-10: 0679735798

ISBN-13: 9780679735793

Edition: 1991

Authors: Camille Paglia

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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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Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/20/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 736
Size: 5.14" wide x 7.97" long x 1.47" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English

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List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
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
Amberst's Madame de Sade: Emily Dickinson
Notes
Index