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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... characters in Blake's poetry have been understood as considerably weaker and less active than their male counterparts. In essays that have by now become near classics to Blake studies, Anne Mellor and Alicia Ostriker, among others, have ...
... characters. Since he uses this system throughout the three major epics, my ... male activity as positive and female activity as negative. In stark ... male and female activity in. 2Blake's poems are not generally recognized as utopian, and ...
... male and female characters, which is expressed in the symbolism of the poems. Because the poems are set in a post-lapsarian world, the male and female characters are separated already at the beginning, most notably in The Four Zoas, and ...
... characters cast glances at a utopian existence, either, most commonly, nostalgic glances backward to the state of ... male–masculine and female–feminine with a dialectical sublation as the conclusion in the utopia of Eden where man and woman ...
... male and female characters that The Four Zoas moves forward towards its conclusion in apocalypse and reunion. Prophecy may be defined as a kind of visionary anticipation, or prediction, of an event, which is often religiously related ...
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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 |