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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... —The Gender Utopia of The Four Zoas 4—The Gender Utopia of Milton 5—The Gender Utopia of Jerusalem Afterword Bibliography Index 40 60 122 158 191 197 205 Introduction When William Blake composed his three epic prophetic poems ix Contents.
Magnus Ankarsjö. Introduction. When William Blake composed his three epic prophetic poems The Four Zoas, Milton and Jerusalem he had, we must assume, no notion at all of feminism. Nonetheless, these majestic poems are in many respects ...
... epic Jerusalem, where the eponymous character, another of Blake's strong ... poems The Four Zoas, Milton and Jerusalem, Blake emerges as an advocate of a ... poems are not generally recognized as utopian, and to my knowledge few studies ...
... epics. Particularly the increased activity of the female leads to mutual gender interactivity in Blake's male and female characters, which is expressed in the symbolism of the poems. Because the poems are set in a post-lapsarian world ...
... poems, for instance “To my Mirtle,” “The Wild Flowers Song,” “Soft Snow,” and the scorching “My Spectre Around me ... epic works. My reading endeavors exclusively to focus on the whole poems as utopias aiming at improved gender equality ...
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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 |