William Blake and GenderMcFarland, 27.1.2015 - 220 sivua 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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... 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 probably the most well-known essays, but there are numerous examples ...
... Four Zoas, where he has scribbled “The Torments of Love & Jealousy” (Brit. Mus. Add. MS. 39764¡), Blake implies that the struggle between the sexes is the main theme of this poem and the two subsequent ones. Although unfinished, The Four ...
... Four Zoas, and are symbolically thrown into a fallen existence. The main urge of the characters is to search for their spiritual and corporeal counterparts in order to prepare for the apocalypse at the end of the poems. The apocalypse ...
... Four Zoas explains, “It is clear that the larger meaning of Blake's canon arises from the component parts of his text and the interdependence of these parts. In Blake's canon, the whole can accommodate itself to the particular no matter ...
... Four Zoas as a gender utopian poem. The gender vision of The Four Zoas is incomplete, however, so Blake revises and improves this unfinished gender utopia in his second epic poem, Milton, and his final epic, Jerusalem, the latter ...
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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 |