Sex and violence, or nature and art
The birth of the Western eye
Renaissance form: Italian art
Spenser and Apollo: The Faerie Queene
Shakespeare and Dionysus: As you like it and Antony and Cleopatra
Return of the Great Mother: Rousseau v. Sade
Amazons, mothers, ghosts: Goethe to gothic
Sex bound and unbound: Blake
Marriage to Mother Nature: Wordsworth
The daemon as lesbian vampire: Coleridge
Light and heat: Shelley and Keats
Cults of sex and beauty: Balzac
Cults of sex and beauty: Gautier, Baudelaire, and Huysmans
Romantic shadows: Emily Brontë
Romantic Shadows: Swinburne and Pater
Apollo daemonized: decadent art
The beautiful boy as destroyer: Wilde's The picture of Dorian Gray
The English epicene: Wilde's The importance of being earnest
American decadents: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville
American decadents: Emerson, Whitman, James
Amherst's Madame de Sade: Emily Dickinson.