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

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