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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... vision of complete equality between the sexes.2 One of my aims in this book is to demonstrate the hitherto unacknowledged significance of Blake's female characters in greater detail. Through my analysis I will dismantle the claims that ...
... vision of gender utopia through a reconciliation between the male and female characters in the concluding apocalypses of the epics. Particularly the increased activity of the female leads to mutual gender interactivity in Blake's male ...
... Visions of the Daughters of Albion and Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Using di›erent approaches, both Williams and Bruder provide valid commentary on Blake's utopia. Their methods di›er considerably, however ...
... Visions of the Daughters of Albion, Blake's first fully developed strong female character. But must a strong female character be, as most commentators so reassuringly insist, a negation? Does that strength not rather come with the ...
... Visions, “Down the golden hinges tore” of the prohibited chapel. The serpent eventually “vomit[s] his poison out” and, in contrast to the una›ected Bromion, in shame lies “down among the swine” (E467–68). Many accomplished studies of ...
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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 |