| Edition |
First Vintage Books edition. |
| Description |
xiv, 718 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Reprint. Originally published: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1990. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 675-700) and index. |
| Contents |
Sex and violence, or nature and art -- The birth of the western eye -- Apollo and Dionysus -- Pagan beauty -- Renaissance form: Italian art -- Spenser and Apollo: the Faerie queene -- Shakespeare and Dionysus: as you like it and Antony and Cleopatra -- Return of the great mother: Rousseau vs. Sade -- Amazons, mothers, ghosts: Goethe to Gothic -- Sex bound and unbound: Blake -- Marriage to Mother Nature: Wordsworth -- The Daemon as lesbian vampire: Coleridge -- Speed and space: Byron -- Light and heat: Shelley and Keats -- Cults of sex and beauty: Balzac -- Cults of sex and beauty: Gautier, Baudelaire, and Huysmans -- Romantic shadows: Emily Bronte -- Romantic shadows: Swinburne and Pater -- Apollo daemonized: decadent art -- The beautiful boy as destroyer: Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray -- The English epicene: Wilde's The importance of being earnest -- American decadents: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville -- American decadents: Emerson, Whitman, James -- Amherst's Madame de Sade: Emily Dickinson. |
| Subject |
Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Literature, Modern -- History and criticism.
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Decadence (Literary movement)
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Paganism in literature.
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Sex in literature.
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Paganism in art.
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Romanticism.
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Sex in art.
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Arts.
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| ISBN |
0679735798 paperback |
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