Chapter 21. The English Epicene: Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List Of Illustrations ix
4. Preface xiii
5. Acknowledgments xiv
6. Chapter I. Sex And Violence, Or Nature And Art 1
7. Chapter 2. The Birth Of The Western Eye 40
8. Chapter 3. Apollo And Dionysus 72
9. Chapter 4. Pagan Beauty 99
10. Chapter 5. Renaissance Form: Italian Art 140
11. Chapter 6. Spenser And Apollo: The Faerie Queene 170
12. Chapter 7. Shakespeare And Dionysus: As You Like It And Antony And Cleopatra 194
13. Chapter 8. Return Of The Great Mother: Rousseau Vs. Sade 230
14. Chapter 9. Amazons, Mothers, Ghosts: Goethe To Gothic 248
15. Chapter 10. Sex Bound And Unbound: Blake 270
16. Chapter 11. Marriage To Mother Nature: Wordsworth 300
17. Chapter 12. The Daemon As Lesbian Vampire: Coleridge 317
18. Chapter 13. Speed And Space: Byron 347
19. Chapter 14. Light And Heat: Shelley And Keats 365
20. Chapter 15. Cults Of Sex And Beauty: Balzac 389
21. Chapter 16. Cults Of Sex And Beauty: Gautier, Baudelaire, And Huysmans 408
22. Chapter 17. Romantic Shadows: Emily Bronte 439
23. Chapter 18. Romantic Shadows: Swinburne And Pater 460
24. Chapter 19. Apollo Daemonized: Decadent Art 489
25. Chapter 20. The Beautiful Boy As Destroyer: Wilde's The Picture Of Dorian Gray 512
26. Chapter 21. The English Epicene: Wilde's The Importance Of Being Earnest 531
27. Chapter 22. American Decadents: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville 572
28. Chapter 23. American Decadents: Emerson, Whitman, James 598
29. Chapter 24. Amherst's Madame De Sade: Emily Dickinson 623
30. Notes 675
31. Index 701