William Blake and GenderMcFarland, 27 jan 2015 - 220 pagina's The closing years of the eighteenth century were the particular domain of literary radicals whose work challenged ideas on gender and sexuality. During this transitional period, the poetry of William Blake reflected the changing mores of society as well as his own developing notions of gender. This work presents an in-depth exploration of gender issues in Blake's three epic poems, The Four Zoas, Milton and Jerusalem. The opening chapter discusses basic concepts such as notions of apocalypse, utopia and gender, all essential to the author's reading of Blake. Background regarding the literary atmosphere of the time, which included influence from the tradition of dissent, English Jacobinism and early feminism, is also included, effectively setting the context for Blake's work. The book then examines the poems in chronological order. It concentrates particularly on male and female activity within each work (refuting the common assumption that Blake was anti-feminist) while exploring the symbolism of the poetry. Blake's repeated theme of the struggle between the sexes receives special emphasis, as does the progress of his gender vision through the three poems. |
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... Wollstonecraft and Mary Hays. Or—why not?—even as being part and parcel of that discourse. In spite of this, Blake has over the years frequently been regarded as a sexist or a misogynist, and critics have read his female symbols as ...
... Wollstonecraft and Mary Hays.3 Like Blake, Mary Hays is a writer who regards female activity as positive, and as imperative for the improvement of gender equality. In the light of those feminist writers and the. 3Bruder's William Blake ...
... Wollstonecraft is that they were natural members of the radical discourse that flourished in the London of the 1790s, with Joseph Johnson's print- and bookshop famously one of the most important gathering-points for the small crowd ...
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Inhoudsopgave
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2Blakes Radical Context | 40 |
3The Gender Utopia of The Four Zoas | 60 |
4The Gender Utopia of Milton | 122 |
5The Gender Utopia of Jerusalem | 158 |
Afterword | 191 |
Bibliography | 197 |
Index | 205 |