Decadence drenched in sex, but sex as thought rather than action. The Bronte sisters, Emily and Charlotte, Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre respectively. Wuthering Heights filled with complex incestuous relationships. Re-rooting of Shelly and Byron in cruel nature. The authority of sequestration.
Objects are alive, people are objects, decor.
Physical beauty as dominance. Emotion is deflected into a mannerist torsion. The androgyne of manners, verbal swordplay. Slaves to fashion. Moby Dick's hyper masculinity obscures the femaleness of nature.