Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 718 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300043961
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0300182139
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9780300043969
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9780300182132
Content:
Preface -- 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 Brontë -- 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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 675-700) and index
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English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe !08252551X!, 1947- Sexual personae. Art and decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1990
Language:
English
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