How long does it take to read Sexual Personae?
Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia takes about 13 hours 10 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 13 hours 10 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 1990. 718 pages, about 197,450 words.
27 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 56 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 13 hours 10 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 8 hours 14 minutes |
The page count is the median across 7 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Discusses the works of Edmund Spenser, Shakespeare, Rousseau, de Sade, Goethe, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Balzac, Gautier, Baudelaire, Huysmans, Emily Bronte, Swinburne, Oscar Wilde, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Whitman, Henry James, and Emily Dickinson.
Subjects: Sex in art, Arts, History and criticism, Decadence (Literary movement), Romanticism, Literature, modern
