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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... commentators indicate, merely in passing, that there is a certain utopian quality in the poetry of Blake, for example A. L. Morton and Nicholas Williams. In his outline The English Utopia, Morton, as one of very few critics, spots the ...
... commentators. The impact of, for example, Fox's and Ostriker's new ideas on contemporary Blake studies cannot be overestimated, and Mellor's influential essay “Blake's Portrayal of Women” has probably been one of the most discussed by ...
... commentators so reassuringly insist, a negation? Does that strength not rather come with the enhanced life-experience as we grow older and respond to increasingly complex situations in an often negative everyday environment? Already in ...
... commentators doing so in Nicholas Williams and A. L. Morton. Morton rightly emphasizes the utopian quality of Blake's major prophetic books. But there are unmistakable utopian components already in the minor prophecies: Visions of the ...
... commentators, to the biblical texts. In the Bible we find a pervasive prophetic utopian tradition, from Genesis to Revelation. Certainly, one must regard the apocalyptic prophetic books of Ezekiel, Daniel, Isaiah and Revelation as ...
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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 |