William Blake and GenderMcFarland, 2015 M01 27 - 220 páginas 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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... Blake has over the years frequently been regarded as a sexist or a misogynist, and critics have read his female symbols as manifestations of anti-feminism. Most commonly, female characters in Blake's poetry have been understood as ...
... female activity are even more obvious in the concluding epic Jerusalem, where the eponymous character, another of Blake's strong females, manages to arouse her symbolic consort Albion from his slumber, and the reunited couple together ...
Magnus Ankarsjö. lies in the interpretation of male and female activity in the epics. As I will show, Blake's notion of gender equality calls for an active female, as well as an active male, and consequently, for increased gender ...
Magnus Ankarsjö. finally entered the highest symbolical level of gender relations in Blake's poetry, the utopia of ... female in Britain, and in Europe, at this time was gradually but slowly improving. Even though women were still ...
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1Apocalypse Utopia and Gender | 9 |
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 |
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