Sexual Personae : Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson,9780300043969

Sexual Personae : Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

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ISBN13: 9780300043969
ISBN10: 0300043961
Format: Trade Book
Pub. Date: 1990-09-10
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xiv
Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art
1(39)
The Birth of the Western Eye
40(32)
Apollo and Dionysus
72(27)
Pagan Beauty
99(41)
Renaissance Form: Italian Art
140(30)
Spenser and Apollo: The Faerie Queene
170(24)
Shakespeare and Dionysus: As You Like It and Antony and Cleopatra
194(36)
Return of the Great Mother: Rousseau vs. Sade
230(18)
Amazons, Mothers, Ghosts: Goethe to Gothic
248(22)
Sex Bound and Unbound: Blake
270(30)
Marriage to Mother Nature: Wordsworth
300(17)
The Daemon as Lesbian Vampire: Coleridge
317(30)
Speed and Space: Byron
347(18)
Light and Heat: Shelley and Keats
365(24)
Cults of Sex and Beauty: Balzac
389(19)
Cults of Sex and Beauty: Gautier, Baudelaire, and Huysmans
408(31)
Romantic Shadows: Emily Bronte
439(21)
Romantic Shadows: Swinburne and Pater
460(29)
Apollo Daemonized: Decadent Art
489(23)
The Beautiful Boy as Destroyer: Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
512(19)
The English Epicene: Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest
531(41)
American Decadents: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville
572(26)
American Decadents: Emerson, Whitman, James
598(25)
Amherst's Madame de Sade: Emily Dickinson
623(52)
Notes 675(26)
Index 701

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