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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... Already on the title page of The Four Zoas, where he has scribbled “The Torments of Love & Jealousy” (Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 39764¡), Blake implies that the struggle between the sexes is the main theme of this poem and the two subsequent ...
... already at the beginning, most notably in The Four Zoas, and are symbolically thrown into a fallen existence. The main urge of the characters is to search for their spiritual and corporeal counterparts in order to prepare for the ...
... Already in his earlier short poems and minor illuminated books Blake shows an awareness of issues of gender and sexuality. The Book of Thel and Visions of the Daughters of Albion are of course the two shorter illuminated works most ...
... already been written and therefore it is not my ambition to discuss these poems in this book. Even though arguably not many of these studies deal with gender issues, and though such an exploration would be a welcome addition to the ...
... already in the minor prophecies: Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Europe, America, The Song of Los, The Book of Los, The Book of Ahania, The First Book of Urizen. We can find characters and ideas that appear later in the major ...
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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 |