William Blake And Gender

Author : Magnus Ankarsjö
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0786483032

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William Blake and Gender by Magnus Ankarsjö Pdf

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.

Author : Helen P Bruder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317321163

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Blake, Gender and Culture by Helen P Bruder Pdf

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.

Author : Nicholas M. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521620503

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Ideology and Utopia in the Poetry of William Blake by Nicholas M. Williams Pdf

Scholars have often drawn attention to William Blake's unusual sensitivity to his social context. In this book Nicholas Williams situates Blake's thought historically by showing how through the decades of a long and productive career Blake consistently responded to the ideas, writing, and art of contemporaries. Williams presents detailed readings of several of Blake's major poems alongside Rousseau's Emile, Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Paine's Rights of Man, Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, and Robert Owen's Utopian Experiments. In so doing, he offers revealing new insights into key Blake texts and draws attention to their inclusion of notions of social determinism, theories of ideology-critique, and Utopian traditions. Williams argues that if we are truly to understand ideology as it relates to Blake, we must understand the practical situation in which the ideological Blake found himself. His study is a revealing commentary on the work of one of our most challenging poets.

Author : Magnus Ankarsjö
Publisher : ACTA Universitatis Gothoburgensis
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015061153444

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Bring Me My Arrows of Desire by Magnus Ankarsjö Pdf

Author : Magnus Ankarsjö
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780786455485

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William Blake and Religion by Magnus Ankarsjö Pdf

Over the last ten years the field of Blake studies has profited from new discoveries about Blake's life and work. This book examines the effect that Blake's mother's recently discovered Moravianism has had on our understanding of his poetry, and gives special attention to Moravianism and Swedenborgianism and their relation to his sexual politics. This is accomplished by a close reading of Blake's poetry, which examines in detail the subjects of religion, sex, and the attempted colonization of Africa by a Swedenborgian utopian group.

Author : T. Connolly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230597013

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William Blake and the Body by T. Connolly Pdf

William Blake and the Body re-evaluates Blake's central image: the human form. In Blake's designs, transparent-skinned bodies passionately contort; in his verse, metamorphic bodies burst from each other in gory, gender-bending births. The culmination is an ideal body uniting form and freedom. Connolly explores romantic-era contexts like anatomical art, embryology, miscarriage and twentieth-century theorists like those of Kristeva, Douglas, Girard to provide an innovative new analysis of Blake's transformations of body and identity.

Author : C. Hobson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137047052

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Blake and Homosexuality by C. Hobson Pdf

Against the backdrop of Britain's underground 18th and early-19th century homosexual culture, mob persecutions, and executions of homosexuals, Hobson shows how Blake's hatred of sexual and religious hypocrisy and state repression, and his revolutionary social vision, led him gradually to accept homosexuality as an integral part of human sexuality. In the process, Blake rejected the antihomosexual bias of British radical tradition, revised his idealization of aggressive male heterosexuality and his male-centered view of gender, and refined his conception of the cooperative commonwealth.

Author : Sarah Haggarty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316508102

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William Blake in Context by Sarah Haggarty Pdf

William Blake, poet and artist, is a figure often understood to have 'created his own system'. Combining close readings and detailed analysis of a range of Blake's work, from lyrical songs to later myth, from writing to visual art, this collection of thirty-eight lively and authoritative essays examines what Blake had in common with his contemporaries, the writers who influenced him, and those he influenced in turn. Chapters from an international team of leading scholars also attend to his wider contexts: material, formal, cultural, and historical, to enrich our understanding of, and engagement with, Blake's work. Accessibly written, incisive, and informed by original research, William Blake in Context enables readers to appreciate Blake anew, from both within and outside of his own idiom.

Author : William Blake
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : EAN:8596547001331

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For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise by William Blake Pdf

The Gates of Paradise, were first published in a limited run in 1793. W.Blake later changed the title to For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise, and added several more drawings as well as a preface and concluding verse, publishing this version in 1818. The seventeen emblematic drawings and their commentaries depict the life of man from birth to death: passage through the four elements (water, earth, wind and fire), hatching as a child from the "mundane shell," encountering women, reaching for the moon of love ("I want, I want"), falling into Time's Ocean. After several other episodes he finally arrives at the death's door with Job's words: "I have said to the Worm: Thou art my mother and my sister." There a female figure is "Weaving to Dreams the Sexual strife, And Weeping over the Web of Life." William Blake (1757 – 1827) was a British poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver, who illustrated and printed his own books. Blake proclaimed the supremacy of the imagination over the rationalism and materialism of the 18th-century. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.

Author : Helen P. Bruder,Tristanne J. Connolly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1054265025

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Blake, Gender and Culture by Helen P. Bruder,Tristanne J. Connolly Pdf

Author : Helen P. Bruder
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1403997047

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Women Reading William Blake by Helen P. Bruder Pdf

Blake's works have long been objects of troubled fascination for female readers and writers. Women Read William Blake brings together the thoughts and arguments of women academic and writers redressing the under-representation of the rich heritage of Blake feminist criticism which now exists. This unique volume contains essays by some of the most eminent scholars in the field, and will be of great use for scholars and students of Blake as well as those interested in seeing how a community of women writers have responded- over three turbulent decades--to the art of a canonical "dead, white, male."

Author : Saree Makdisi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521763035

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Reading William Blake by Saree Makdisi Pdf

A new, exciting and accessible approach to reading William Blake, in which leading scholar Saree Makdisi explores key themes.

Author : Anne K. Mellor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136040382

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Romanticism and Gender by Anne K. Mellor Pdf

Taking twenty women writers of the Romantic period, Romanticism and Gender explores a neglected period of the female literary tradition, and for the first time gives a broad overview of Romantic literature from a feminist perspective.

Author : H. Bruder
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1997-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230379572

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William Blake and the Daughters of Albion by H. Bruder Pdf

William Blake and the Daughters of Albion offers a challenge to the Blake establishment. By placing some of Blake's early prophetic works in startingly new historical contexts (most provocatively those of female conduct and pornography) a very different image of the radical Blake emerges. The book shows what can be achieved when a challenging methodology, feminist historicism, is brought to bear on a canonical writer and on now canonized interpretations of his work.

Author : Martin Butlin,William Blake,Tate Gallery
Publisher : London : Tate Gallery Publications
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Engraving
ISBN : UOM:39076000545389

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William Blake by Martin Butlin,William Blake,Tate Gallery Pdf