Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson - Paglia, Camille

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Paglia, Camille

Format: Trade Paperback

Published by Vintage, 1991

Is Emily Dickinson “the female Sade”? Is Donatello’s David 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.