| Description |
xvi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Textual Bodies -- 2. Graphic Bodies -- 3. Embodiment: Urizen -- 4. Embodiment: Reuben -- 5. Divisions and Comminglings: Sons and Daughters -- 6. Divisions and Comminglings: Emanations and Spectres -- 7. The Eternal Body |
| Summary |
"William Blake and the Body re-evaluates Blake's central image: the human form. Blake's designs depict transparent-skinned bodies contorted with passions, and in his verse, metamorphic bodies burst from each other in gory, gender-bending births. The culmination, on which all Blake's bodily depictions rely, is an ideal human which unites one and many, form and freedom, flesh and spirit. Connolly explores romantic-era contexts like anatomical art, embryology, miscarriage, ancient human sacrifice, and twentieth-century theories like those of Kristeva, Douglas and Girard, to provide an innovative new analysis of Blake's transformations of the body and identity."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-240) and index |
| Subject |
Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Knowledge -- Anatomy
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Human figure in art.
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Human body in literature.
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| LC no. |
2002025210 |
| ISBN |
0333968484 |
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