Idols of perversity : fantasies of feminine evil in fin-de-siècle culture
1988, 1st paperback edition. New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press. Fine paperback copy. Particularly well-preserved; tight, bright and clean. Item #402533
ISBN: 0195056523
Physical description: xi, 453p : ill. ; 26 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Raptures of submission : the shopkeeper's soul keeper and the cult of the household nun -- The cult of invalidism ; Ophelia and folly ; Dead ladies and the fetish of sleep -- The collapsing woman : solitary vice and restful detumescence -- The weightless woman ; The nymph with the broken back ; and The mythology of therapeutic rape -- Women of moonlight and wax ; The mirror of Venus and the lesbian glass -- Evolution and the brain : extinguished eyes and the call of the child ; Homosexuality and the dream of male transcendence -- Clinging vines and the dangers of degeneration -- Poison flowers ; Maenads of the decadence and the torrid wail of the sirens -- Gynanders and genetics ; Connoisseurs of bestiality and serpentine delights ; Leda, Circe, and the cold caresses of the Sphinx -- Metamorphoses of the vampire ; Dracula and his daughters -- Gold and the virgin whores of Babylon ; Judith and Salome : the priestesses of man's severed head. Subjects: Women in the arts History; Women in art; Sexism in art; Arts, Victorian; Arts, Modern; History 19th century; Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) History 19th century; Femmes fatales in art; Decadence in art; Victorian Period; Symbolism (Art movement); Women in art 19th century.
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