William Blake and the Daughters of Albion

William Blake and the Daughters of Albion offers a challenge to the Blake establishment. By placing some of Blake's early prophetic works in startingly new historical contexts (most provocatively those of female conduct and pornography) a very different image of the radical Blake emerges. The book shows what can be achieved when a challenging methodology, feminist historicism, is brought to bear on a canonical writer and on now canonized interpretations of his work.

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HELEN P. BRUDER

Inhalt
List of Plates - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Blake Studies: A Critical Survey - The Sins of the Fathers: Patriarchal Criticism and The Book of Thel - 'Slip-Sliding Away': Some Problems with 'Crying Love' in the 1790s - Blake, the Rights of Man and Political Feminism in the 1790s - 'Go Tell the Human Race that Woman's Love is Sin': Sexual Politics and History in Blake's Europe: A Prophecy - 'Conclusion' - Notes and References - Select Bibliography - Index