Is Emily Dickinson "the female Sade"? Is Donatello's David a bit of paedophile pornography? What is the secret kinship between Byron and Elvis Presley, between the Medusa and Madonna? How do liberals and feminists - as well as conservatives - fatally misread human nature? This audacious and omnivorously learned work of guerilla scholarship offers nothing less than a unified-field theory of Western culture, high and low, since the Egyptians invented beauty - making a persuasive case for all art as a pagan battleground between male and female, form and chaos, civilisation and demonic nature.
- ISBN10 0300091273
- ISBN13 9780300091274
- Publish Date 10 September 2001 (first published 1 January 1990)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 9 September 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 733
- Language English