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Sexual personae.
- Title
- Sexual personae. Art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson / Camille Paglia.
- Author
- Paglia, Camille, 1947-
- Publication
- London ; New Haven : Yale University Press, [1990]
- ©1990
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Dedalus Foundation, donor NN
- Description
- xiv, 718 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- 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.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 675-700) and index.
- Source (note)
- of the Dedalus Foundation;
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 90-3185
- ISBN
- 0300043961
- 9780300043969
- LCCN
- 89031659
- OCLC
- 19554509
- Author
- Paglia, Camille, 1947- author.
- Title
- Sexual personae. Art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson / Camille Paglia.
- Publisher
- London ; New Haven : Yale University Press, [1990]
- Copyright Date
- ©1990
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 675-700) and index.
- Local Note
- Copy in ReCAP 24-1822 inscribed.
- Source
- Gift; of the Dedalus Foundation; 2024. NN
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Added Author
- Dedalus Foundation, donor NN
- Research Call Number
- ReCAP 24-1822JFE 90-3185(S) JFE 92-2358