Sexual personae
Subtitle: art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
By: Camille Paglia.
Edition: 1st Vintage Books ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 718
Subjects: Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Literature, Modern -- History and criticism; Decadence (Literary movement); Paganism in literature; Sex in literature; Paganism in art; Romanticism; Sex in art; Arts
Description: Discusses the works of Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare, Rousseau, de Sade, Goethe, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Balzac, Gautier, Baudelaire, Huysmans, Emily Bronte, Swinburne, Oscar Wilde, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Whitman, Henry James, and Emily Dickinson.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 675-700) and index.
Reprint. Originally published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1990.