Sexual Personae - Chapters

Chapters

1. Sex and Violence, or Nature and Art
2. The Birth of the Western Eye
3. Apollo and Dionysus
4. Pagan Beauty
5. Renaissance Form: Italian Art
6. Spenser and Apollo: The Faerie Queen
7. Shakespeare and Dionysus: As You Like It and Cleopatra
8. Return of the Great Mother: Rousseau
9. Amazons, Mothers, Ghosts: Goethe
10. Sex Bound and Unbound: Blake
11. Marriage to Mother Nature: Wordsworth
12. The Daemon as Lesbian Vampire: Coleridge
13. Speed and Space: Byron
14. Light and Heat: Shelly and Keats
15. Cults of Sex and Beauty: Balzac
16. Cults of Sex and Beauty: Gautier, Baudelaire and Huysmans
17. Romantic Shadow: Emily Brontë
18. Romantic Shadows: Swineburne and Pater
19. Apollo Daemonized: Decadent Art
20. The Beautiful Boy as Destroyer: Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray
21. The English Epicine: Wilde’s The Importance of Being Ernest
22. American Decadents: Poe, Hawthorne and Melville
23. Amherst’s Madame de Sade: Emily Dickinson