- Sex in art, Arts, History and criticism, Decadence (Literary movement)
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.
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Character-led, spare, cool and prestige.
- character-ledplot-driven
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Camille Paglia
- First published
- 1990
- Pages
- 718
- Publisher
- Vintage, Vintage Books, Yale University Press
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780140157314
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