Sexual Personae Chapters 8 & 9: Return of the Great Mother | Amazons, Mothers, Ghosts (Patreon)

Chapter 8 Return of the Great Mother: Rousseau vs. Sade, Paglia introduces us to Jean-Jacques Rousseau and his mortal enemy - The Marquis de Sade. Hilarity ensues.  One of the best chapters in the book. In Chapter 9: Amazons, Mothers, Ghosts: Goethe to Gothic, she discusses the lives and works of the German Romantics Goethe and Kleist, and describes the transition to the era of the English Gothic Novel.