Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson.

PAGLIA, Camille.

Item Number: 2934

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.

First edition. Octavo, original blue cloth. Light rubbing to the bottom cloth, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with light rubbing. Signed by the author on the title page.

"Sexual Personae is an enormous sensation of a book, in all the better senses of 'sensation'. There is no book comparable in scope, stance, design or insight." (Harold Bloom) "A fine, disturbing book. It seeks to attack the reader's emotions as well as his/her prejudices. It is very learned. Each sentence jabs like a needle."(Anthony Burgess) "Provocative... a radical reappraisal of the human condition. Her style is marked by angry exhiliration, brittle epigrams and acid paradoxes." (Times Literary Supplement)