This study of sexuality and decadence in culture crosses the boundaries of literature, art, psychology and religion, from antiquity to Wilde and Emily Dickinson via Renaissance art, Rousseau and Sade. The author discusses themes such as voyeurism and pornography as having been ignored in great art by most critics. The book challenges established thinking and ranges from the worshippers of Dionysus to the 19th-century Decadents from Botticelli and Byron to Balzac and the Beach Boys.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Books LTD
ISBN-13
9780140157314
eBay Product ID (ePID)
89417774
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
Author
Camille Paglia
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literature, Anthropology
Publication Year
1992
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
736 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
234mm
Item Width
153mm
Item Weight
950 g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Camille Paglia
Series Title
Penguin Literary Criticism
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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