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1 online resource (xii, 260 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: 'Bring me my Arrows of desire': Sexy Blake in the Twenty-First Century / Helen Bruder and Tristanne Connolly -- PART I: VIOLENCE AND DOMINANCE -- 1. Subjectivity, Mutuality and Masochism: Ahania in "The Book of Ahania" and "The Four Zoas" / Lucy Cogan -- 2. The Hidden Love Triangle and Adulterous Birth in Blake's" The Four Zoas" / Ayako Wada -- 3. Blood in Blake's Poetry of Gender Struggle / Yoko Ima-Izumi -- 4. Ripped from Complacency: Violence and Feminist Moments in Blake / Michelle Leigh Gompf -- PART II: CHASTITY, REDEMPTION AND FEMININE DESIRE -- 5. In the 'Lilly of Havilah': Sapphism and Chastity in Blake's "Jerusalem" / Sean David Nelson -- 6. 'Abstinence sows sand all over': William Lost in Paradise / Magnus Ankarsj̲ -- 7. 'The Sight of All These Things': Sexual Vision and Obscurity in Blake's "Milton" / David Shakespeare -- 8. Erotic Spirituality in Blake's 'Last Judgement' / Susanne Sklar -- 9. Blake's Bowers of Bliss: "The Gitagovinda"," The Four Zoas", and Two Illustrations for" L'Allegro" / Kathryn Kruger -- PART III: CONCEPTUAL SEX, CONCEPTUAL ART -- 10. Ȟlyos and Ceyl̈n [A Poison Tree] / Tommy Mayberry -- 11. The Hinges on the Doors of Marriage: The Body's Openness to Information in the Art of Stelarc and Blake / Paige Morgan -- 12. The Sexual Life of Catherine B.: Women Novelists, Blake Scholars and Contemporary Fabulations of Catherine Blake / Angus Whitehead and Joel Gwynne -- 13. Blake and Porn / Philippa Simpson -- PART IV: CODA -- 14. Normalizing Perversity: Blake and Homosexuality in 2013 / Christopher Z. Hobson -- 15. Commemorating the Vere-street 'Monsters' / Christopher Z. Hobson |
| Summary |
"This book lays bare the sexy Blake lately obscured in fogs of political correctness and post-feminism. Its contributors uncover, in fact, numerous sexy Blakes, arguing for both chastity and pornography, violence and domination as well as desire and redemption, and also journeying in the realms of conceptual sex and conceptual art. Fierce tussles over the body in, and the body of, Blake's work are the book's life-blood. Contributors differ passionately in their conclusions about the nature of Blake's sexiness. All acknowledge Christopher Hobson's revelation of Blake's insistent tendency to normalize perversity - some with relish, some with alarm. We celebrate the mysteries of Blakean attractions and repulsions, and hope this volume will re-animate the lively sexual debates which once characterized Blake Studies."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-253) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Blake, William, 1757-1827 fast |
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Sex in literature.
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Sex role in literature.
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 -- English.
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Literary studies: poetry & poets -- English.
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Literary theory -- English.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gay & Lesbian.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature.
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Sex in literature
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Sex role in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Bruder, Helen P., editor.
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Connolly, Tristanne J., 1970- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781137332844 |
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1137332840 |
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