Subjects
Blake, Gender and Culture
Editors: Helen P Bruder and Tristanne J Connolly
The Body, Gender and Culture
978 1 84893 304 0: 234x156mm: £60.00/$99.00
978 1 84893 305 7
Blake's combination of verse and design invites interdisciplinary study. The essays in this collection approach his work from a variety of perspectives including masculinity, performance, plant biology, empire, politics and sexuality. Particular strengths running through the essays are a fascination with religion, spirituality, and the relationship between the body and the soul, and rich attention to Blake’s visual art.
Readership
Literature, Gender Studies, History of Science & Medicine, Romanticism and Art History
Contents
Introduction: Naked History Displayed – Helen P Bruder and Tristanne J Connolly
1 'Merely a Superior Being': Blake and the Creations of Eve – Mark Crosby
2 The Last Strumpet: Harlotry and Hermaphroditism in Blake's Rahab – G A Rosso
3 Sex, Violence and the History of this World: Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Enoch – Peter Otto
4 Bridal Mysticism and 'Sifting Time': The Lost Moravian History of Blake's Family – Keri Davies
5 'A Secret Common to Our Blood': The Visionary Erotic Heritage of Blake, Thomas Butts and Mary Butts – Marsha Keith Schuchard
6 Changing the Sexual Garments: The Regeneration of Sexuality in Jerusalem – Catherine L McClenahan
7 Philoprogenitive Blake – David Fallon
8 ‘Seeking Flowers to Comfort Her’: Queer Botany in Blake’s Visions, Darwin's Loves and Wollstonecraft’s Rights of Woman – Elizabeth Bernath
9 'Or Wilt Thou Go Ask the Mole?': (Con)Figuring the Feminine in Blake's Thel – Elizabeth Effinger
10 Gendering the Margins of Gray: Blake, Classical Visual Culture and the Alternative Bodies of Ann Flaxman’s Book – Luisa Calè
11 The Virgil Woodcuts Out of Scale: Blake’s Gigantic, Masculine Pastoral – Bethan Stevens
12 Closet Drama: Gender and Performance in Blake and Joanna Baillie – Steve Clark