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Sexual Personae
Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

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Paperback, 718 pages
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United States, 1 August 1991

Here is the fiery, provocative, and unparalleled work of feminist art criticism that launched Camille Paglia's exceptional career as one of our most important public intellectuals. Is Emily Dickinson "the female Sade"? Is Donatello's David a bit of pedophile pornography? What is the secret kinship between Byron and Elvis Presley, between Medusa and Madonna? How do liberals and feminists-as well as conservatives-fatally misread human nature? This audacious and omnivorously learned work of guerrilla scholarship offers nothing less than a unified-field theory of Western culture, high and low, since Egyptians invented beauty-making a persuasive case for all art as a pagan battleground between male and female, form and chaos, civilization and daemonic nature.



47 photographs.


Camille Paglia is the University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. A regular contributor to Salon.com, she is the author of Glittering Images; Break, Blow, Burn; Sexual Personae; Sex, Art, and American Culture; and Vamps & Tramps.


List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments



Chapter 1 Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art

Chapter 2 The Birth of the Western Eye

Chapter 3 Apollo and Dionysus

Chapter 4 Pagan Beauty

Chapter 5 Renaissance Form: Italian Art

Chapter 6 Spenser and Apollo: The Faerie Queene

Chapter 7 Shakespeare and Dionysus: As You Like It and Antony and Cleopatra

Chapter 8 Return of the Great Mother: Rousseau vs. Sade

Chapter 9 Amazons, Mothers, Ghosts: Goethe to Gothic

Chapter 10 Sex Bound and Unbound: Blake

Chapter 11 Marriage to Mother Nature: Wordsworth

Chapter 12 The Daemon as Lesbian Vampire: Coleridge

Chapter 13 Speed and Space: Byron

Chapter 14 Light and Heat: Shelley and Keats

Chapter 15 Cults of Sex and Beauty: Balzac

Chapter 16 Cults of Sex and Beauty: Gautier, Baudelaire, and Huysmans

Chapter 17 Romantic Shadows: Emily Bronte

Chapter 18 Romantic Shadows: Swinburne and Pater

Chapter 19 Apollo Daemonized: Decadent Art

Chapter 20 The Beautiful Boy as Destroyer: Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray

Chapter 21 The English Epicene: Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest

Chapter 22 American Decadents: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville

Chapter 23 American Decadents: Emerson, Whitman, James

Chapter 24 Amherst's Madame de Sade: Emily Dickinson



Notes


Index

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Here is the fiery, provocative, and unparalleled work of feminist art criticism that launched Camille Paglia's exceptional career as one of our most important public intellectuals. Is Emily Dickinson "the female Sade"? Is Donatello's David a bit of pedophile pornography? What is the secret kinship between Byron and Elvis Presley, between Medusa and Madonna? How do liberals and feminists-as well as conservatives-fatally misread human nature? This audacious and omnivorously learned work of guerrilla scholarship offers nothing less than a unified-field theory of Western culture, high and low, since Egyptians invented beauty-making a persuasive case for all art as a pagan battleground between male and female, form and chaos, civilization and daemonic nature.



47 photographs.


Camille Paglia is the University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. A regular contributor to Salon.com, she is the author of Glittering Images; Break, Blow, Burn; Sexual Personae; Sex, Art, and American Culture; and Vamps & Tramps.


List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgments



Chapter 1 Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art

Chapter 2 The Birth of the Western Eye

Chapter 3 Apollo and Dionysus

Chapter 4 Pagan Beauty

Chapter 5 Renaissance Form: Italian Art

Chapter 6 Spenser and Apollo: The Faerie Queene

Chapter 7 Shakespeare and Dionysus: As You Like It and Antony and Cleopatra

Chapter 8 Return of the Great Mother: Rousseau vs. Sade

Chapter 9 Amazons, Mothers, Ghosts: Goethe to Gothic

Chapter 10 Sex Bound and Unbound: Blake

Chapter 11 Marriage to Mother Nature: Wordsworth

Chapter 12 The Daemon as Lesbian Vampire: Coleridge

Chapter 13 Speed and Space: Byron

Chapter 14 Light and Heat: Shelley and Keats

Chapter 15 Cults of Sex and Beauty: Balzac

Chapter 16 Cults of Sex and Beauty: Gautier, Baudelaire, and Huysmans

Chapter 17 Romantic Shadows: Emily Bronte

Chapter 18 Romantic Shadows: Swinburne and Pater

Chapter 19 Apollo Daemonized: Decadent Art

Chapter 20 The Beautiful Boy as Destroyer: Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray

Chapter 21 The English Epicene: Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest

Chapter 22 American Decadents: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville

Chapter 23 American Decadents: Emerson, Whitman, James

Chapter 24 Amherst's Madame de Sade: Emily Dickinson



Notes


Index

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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art
Chapter 2 The Birth of the Western Eye
Chapter 3 Apollo and Dionysus
Chapter 4 Pagan Beauty
Chapter 5 Renaissance Form: Italian Art
Chapter 6 Spenser and Apollo: The Faerie Queene
Chapter 7 Shakespeare and Dionysus: As You Like It and Antony and Cleopatra
Chapter 8 Return of the Great Mother: Rousseau vs. Sade
Chapter 9 Amazons, Mothers, Ghosts: Goethe to Gothic
Chapter 10 Sex Bound and Unbound: Blake
Chapter 11 Marriage to Mother Nature: Wordsworth
Chapter 12 The Daemon as Lesbian Vampire: Coleridge
Chapter 13 Speed and Space: Byron
Chapter 14 Light and Heat: Shelley and Keats
Chapter 15 Cults of Sex and Beauty: Balzac
Chapter 16 Cults of Sex and Beauty: Gautier, Baudelaire, and Huysmans
Chapter 17 Romantic Shadows: Emily Bronte
Chapter 18 Romantic Shadows: Swinburne and Pater
Chapter 19 Apollo Daemonized: Decadent Art
Chapter 20 The Beautiful Boy as Destroyer: Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
Chapter 21 The English Epicene: Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest
Chapter 22 American Decadents: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville
Chapter 23 American Decadents: Emerson, Whitman, James
Chapter 24 Amherst's Madame de Sade: Emily Dickinson

Notes
Index

About the Author

CAMILLE PAGLIA is the University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. A regular contributor to Salon.com, she is the author of Glittering Images; Break, Blow, Burn; Sexual Personae; Sex, Art, and American Culture; and Vamps & Tramps.

Reviews

"A remarkable book, at once outrageous and compelling, fanatical and brilliant.... One must be awed by [Paglia's] vast energy, erudition and wit." —The Washington Post

“Sexual Personae [is] an enormous sensation of a book, in all the better senses of ‘sensation.’ There is no book comparable in scope, stance, design or insight.” —Harold Bloom

“The ability to infuriate both antagonists in an ideological struggle is often a sign of a first-rate book.... [Paglia] is a conspicuously gifted writer ... and an admirably close reader with a hard core of common sense.” —The New York Times Book Review

“Paglia marshals a vast array of ... cultural materials with an authorial voice derived from sixties acid-rock lead guitar.... Close to poetry.” —Greil Marcus, author of Lipstick Traces

“This book is a red comet in a smog-filled sky.... Brilliant.” —The Nation

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