Book 1991

Sexual personae

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Publisher: Vintage Books
Language: English
Published: 1991

Decadence (Literary movement)
Paganism in literature
Sex in literature
Paganism in art
Romanticism
Sex in art
Arts

Discusses the works of Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare, Rousseau, de Sade, Goethe, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Balzac, Gautier, Baudelaire, Huysmans, Emily Bronte, Swinburne, Oscar Wilde, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Whitman, Henry James, and Emily Dickinson.