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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... reunited before apocalypse in the final plates. In the earlier The Four Zoas it is another female. 1See Mellor, “Blake's Portrayal of Women,” and Ostriker, “Desire Gratified and Ungratified: William Blake and Sexuality.” These two are ...
... reunited couple together go through the apocalypse and enter the afterworld of Blake's highest Eden at the end of the poem. Already on the title page of The Four Zoas, where he has scribbled “The Torments of Love & Jealousy” (Brit. Mus ...
... reunited in togetherness with his emanation Jerusalem at the end of the poem. Therefore, The Four Zoas and Milton express male-female reunion, the stage before and during apocalypse when male and female have revoked the fall and are ...
... reunited. This male-female reunion is the most important stage in Blake's utopian writing since it is Blake's threshold to eternity. In Blake's poetry man and woman symbolically begin in pre-lapsarian unity, are divided in the fall, and ...
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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 |