Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Author / Editor
Paglia, Camille.

Title
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