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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... utopian existence with complete gender equality. Accordingly, my discussion does not follow the main current within Blake criticism; the central di›erence between my view and other studies of Blake's gender utopia lies in the ...
... existence. The main urge of the characters is to search for their spiritual ... utopian goal of complete equality between the sexes in Blake's poetry is ... utopian level; Jerusalem expresses the more advanced stage of male-female ...
Magnus Ankarsjö. 1. Apocalypse,. Utopia. and. Gender. Blake. and. Apocalypse. Utopia and apocalypse are crucial concepts for the understanding of Blake's vision of gender equality in the three major prophecies. The utopian existence of ...
... utopian existence, either, most commonly, nostalgic glances backward to the state of original innocence in pre-lapsarian Eden, or forward to a future state of eternal bliss. “In futurity / I prophetic see,” Blake writes in “The Little ...
... life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.... This is the first resurrection ... utopian works, which saw its beginning in Sir Thomas More's momentous Utopia ... existence Urizen longs for a better future world: From all the depths 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 |