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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... passive and weak on the one end, and active and evil on the other.1 In the 1804 epic poem Milton it is Ololon, one of Blake's allegedly strong female characters, and not her counterpart male character Milton, who is taking the ...
... passively locked up in a hierarchal class-system, his female characters strive for freedom and final reconciliation through activity and resistance. The paradoxical status of woman at this time is surely also one of the major reasons ...
... the second coming of Messiah, peace will reign on earth for a period of a thousand years is close to the harmony of Blake's utopia which is manifested in the two components, the active Eden and the passive ¡—Apocalypse, Utopia and Gender ...
Magnus Ankarsjö. in the two components, the active Eden and the passive Beulah. “They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.... This is the first resurrection,” as the last book of the Bible tells us (Revelation 20:4–5 ...
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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 |