...and what's new this evening, then - dazzlenation?...well, having taken up what appears to be your 'Camille paglia' reference...I was struck by the following line upon her wiki entry:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Paglia

"Sexual Personae has been called an "energetic, Freud-friendly reading of Western art", one that seemed "heretical and perverse", at the height of political correctness; according to Daniel Nester, its characterization of "William Blake as the British Marquis de Sade or Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson as 'self-ruling hermaphrodites who cannot mate' still pricks up many an English major's ears."

'a prick up your ears'....LOL...a reference to joe orton but also, as far as I can remember...a sick joke around the sooty 'n' sweep zygote slavery trade line....and so none of this is really 'funny' is it, dazzlenation?...see previous notes upon that electronic 'tinnitus'...a bit like a persistent low-hum fax machine, when it gets really bad....and yes, it gets on your nerves....as well as hardening your resolve to etc etc...and so anyway, what might the ill be whining about, this evening?.....hmmm....and this is where it gets amusing, again....because a little bird tells me that Tomlinson's 'burn the witch' test - has recently been carried out, again....and the upshot?...rowling failed it...always going to happen, at some point - as daldry had known...see previous notes upon the ambassador's party, prague BC - 1995 etc etc....as it goes, eh?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson

anyway, let's get back to the above quotation, now....and that is because having clicked on the link for 'Emily dickinson'....I was to remember how lisa used to revere her work...so much so...that she even used to dress in that...how shall I put it...'dour' fashion....I then came across a certain painting...deja vu time....and again, I find myself struggling for words...something around that late 60s competition at the mermaid theatre, Greenwich...remember 'which one is the most likely to be a girl' on stage - dazzlenation?.......oh and who can't do 'ears' then?...answer:

Emily Elizabeth, Austin, and Lavoinia Dickinson by Otis Allen Bullard, oil on canvas, ca. 1840, Houghton Library, Harvard University

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Dickinson#/media/File:Dickinson_children_painting.jpeg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Dickinson_children_painting.jpeg

and now let's return to that quotation, in relation to 'English majors':

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Marr

He went to read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, graduating with a first class honours degree.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Webb

 

At the age of 20 (needs citation - ed), Webb attended Robinson College, Cambridge, where he studied English and became vice-president of the Footlights.