| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 264 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction: 'What is now proved was once, only imagin'd' / Helen P. Bruder and Tristanne Connolly -- Pansexuality (regained) / Helen Kidd -- Blake and the evolution of same-sex subjectivity / Christopher Z. Hobson -- Blake and the queering of jouissance / Richard C. Sha -- Drawing lines: Bodies, sexualities and performance in The four Zoas / Peter Otto -- Anal Blake: Bringing up the rear in Blakean criticism / Elizabeth C. Effinger -- The body of the blasphemer / Martin Myrone -- Trannies, amputees and disco queens: Blake and contemporary queer art / Jason Whittaker -- 'Real acting': 'Felpham Billy' and Grayson Perry try it on / Helen P. Bruder -- 'Fear not / To unfold your dark visions of torment': Blake and Emin's bad sex aesthetic / Tristanne Connolly -- 'Woes & ... sighs': Fantasies of slavery in Visions of the daughters of Albion / Bethan Stevens -- 'The lineaments of ... desire': Blakes Visions of the daughters of Albion and romantic literary treatments of rape / Caroline Jackson-Houlston -- 'Yet I am an identity / I wish & feel & weep & groan': Blake's sentimentalism as (peri)performative / Steve Clark -- 'By a false wife brought to the gates of death': Blake, politics and transgendered performances / David Fallon -- 'No boys work': Blake, Hayley and the triumphs of (intellectual) Paiderastia / Mark Crosby -- 'Hayley on his toilette': Blake, Hayley and homophobia / Susan Matthews -- 'My little Cane Sofa and the Bust of Sappho': Elizabeth Iremonger and the female world of book-collecting / Keri Davies |
| Summary |
"Over the last decade, Romanticism and queer theory have been mutually illuminating and incredibly productive, but this canonical 'queering' has somehow veered away from William Blake. This collection looks anew at Blake's celebrated sexual visions, to see how they might appear once compulsory heterosex has been ditched as an interpretative norm"--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Knowledge -- Psychology
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| SUBJECT |
Blake, William, 1757-1827 fast |
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Homosexuality and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century
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Homosexuality and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century
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Literary studies: poetry & poets -- English.
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Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 -- English.
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Gay studies (Gay men) -- English.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Literature.
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Homosexuality and literature
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Psychology
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England
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bruder, Helen P
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Connolly, Tristanne J., 1970-
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| ISBN |
9780230277175 |
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0230277179 |
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