{"product_id":"sexual-personae-isbn-9780679735793","title":"Sexual Personae","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe fiery, provocative, and unparalleled work of feminist art criticism that launched the exceptional career of one of our most important public intellectuals—\"a remarkable book, at once outrageous and compelling, fanatical and brilliant.... One must be awed by [Paglia's] vast energy, erudition and wit\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post).\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIs Emily Dickinson “the female Sade”? Is Donatello’s \u003ci\u003eDavid\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith 47 photographs.\u003ci\u003eList of Illustrations \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePreface \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAcknowledgments \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1 Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2 The Birth of the Western Eye \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3 Apollo and Dionysus \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4 Pagan Beauty \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5 Renaissance Form: Italian Art \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6 Spenser and Apollo: \u003ci\u003eThe Faerie Queene\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7 Shakespeare and Dionysus: \u003ci\u003eAs You Like It\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAntony and Cleopatra\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8 Return of the Great Mother: Rousseau vs. Sade \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9 Amazons, Mothers, Ghosts: Goethe to Gothic \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10 Sex Bound and Unbound: Blake \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11 Marriage to Mother Nature: Wordsworth \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12 The Daemon as Lesbian Vampire: Coleridge \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13 Speed and Space: Byron \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14 Light and Heat: Shelley and Keats \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15 Cults of Sex and Beauty: Balzac \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 16 Cults of Sex and Beauty: Gautier, Baudelaire, and Huysmans \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 17 Romantic Shadows: Emily Bronte \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 18 Romantic Shadows: Swinburne and Pater \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 19 Apollo Daemonized: Decadent Art \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 20 The Beautiful Boy as Destroyer: Wilde's \u003ci\u003eThe Picture of Dorian Gray\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 21 The English Epicene: Wilde's \u003ci\u003eThe Importance of Being Earnest\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 22 American Decadents: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 23 American Decadents: Emerson, Whitman, James \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 24 Amherst's Madame de Sade: Emily Dickinson \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\"A remarkable book, at once outrageous and compelling, fanatical and brilliant.... One must be awed by [Paglia's] vast energy, erudition and wit.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eSexual Personae\u003c\/i\u003e [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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “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.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “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 \u003ci\u003eLipstick Traces\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “This book is a red comet in a smog-filled sky.... Brilliant.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003eCAMILLE 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 \u003ci\u003eGlittering Images\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eBreak, Blow, Burn\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSexual Personae\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSex, Art, and American Culture\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eVamps \u0026amp; Tramps\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299897692389,"sku":"NP9780679735793","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679735793.jpg?v=1767736409","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/sexual-personae-isbn-9780679735793","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}