Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
- Author / Editor
- Paglia, Camille.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
- Published
- New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1990.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 718 pp.
- Description
- Expansive commentary on western art and literature, including the assertion (pp. 171-72) that Edmund Spenser established English literary tradition by "abandoning Chaucer and eradicating his influence," particularly his "populism."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Chaucer's Influence and Later Allusion