Blake, Gender and Culture

Blake's combination of verse and design invites interdisciplinary study. The essays in this collection approach his work from a variety of perspectives including masculinity, performance, plant biology, empire, politics and sexuality.

Helen P. Bruder, Tristanne J. Connolly

Introduction: Naked History Displayed, Helen P. Bruder, Tristanne J. Connolly; Chapter 1 'Merely a Superior Being': Blake and the Creations of Eve, Mark Crosby; Chapter 2 The Last Strumpet: Harlotry and Hermaphroditism in Blake's Rahab, G. A. Rosso; Chapter 3 Sex, Violence and the History of this World: Blake's Illustrations to the Book of Enoch, Peter Otto; Chapter 4 Bridal Mysticism and 'Sifting Time' The Lost Moravian History of Blake's Family, Keri Davies; Chapter 5 'A Secret Common to our Blood': The Visionary Erotic Heritage of Blake, Thomas Butts and Mary Butts, Marsha Keith Schuchard; Chapter 6 Changing the Sexual Garments: The Regeneration of Sexuality in Jerusalem, Catherine L. McClenahan; Chapter 7 Philoprogenitive Blake, David Fallon; Chapter 8 'Seeking Flowers to Comfort Her': Queer Botany in Blake's Visions, Darwin's Loves and Wollstonecraft's Rights of Woman, Elizabeth Bernath; Chapter 9 'Or Wilt Thou Go Ask the Mole?': (Con)Figuring the Feminine in Blake's Thel, Elizabeth Effinger; Chapter 10 Gendering the Margins of Gray: Blake, Classical Visual Culture and the Alternative Bodies of Ann Flaxman's Book, Luisa Calè; Chapter 11 The Virgil Woodcuts Out of Scale: Blake's Gigantic, Masculine Pastoral, Bethan Stevens; Chapter 12 Closet Drama: Gender and Performance in Blake and Joanna Baillie, Steve Clark;