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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... gender equality. Accordingly, my discussion does not follow the main current within Blake criticism; the central di›erence between my view and other studies of Blake's gender utopia lies in the interpretation of male and female activity ...
... gender equality calls for an active female, as well as an active male, and consequently, for increased gender interactivity altogether. Blake promotes a vision of gender utopia through a reconciliation between the male and female ...
... gender equality as the norm. Blake's later works to some degree mirror the relation between the sexes, the lack of gender equality and the onset of modern feminism at the end of the eighteenth century. The overall status of the female ...
Magnus Ankarsjö. equality. In the light of those feminist writers and the sexual politics of the time, one can read Blake as a feminist, according to Bruder: Blake is of value to feminism not because he maintained an exemplary and ...
... gender issues, and though such an exploration would be a welcome addition to the unceasing augmentation of the corpus ... gender equality. In line with this view, John B. Pierce in Flexible Design: Revisionary Poetics in Blake's Vala, or ...
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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 |