Sexy Blake [electronic resource] /
Bruder, H.editor.
Connolly, T.editor.
This book lays bare numerous sexy Blakes, arguing for both chastity and pornography, violence and domination as well as desire and redemption, and also journeying in the realms of conceptual sex and conceptual art. Fierce tussles over the body in, and the body of, the poet-artist's work celebrate Blakean attractions and repulsions.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Notes on the Contributors; Introduction: 'Bring me my Arrows of desire': Sexy Blake in the Twenty-First Century; 1 Subjectivity, Mutuality and Masochism: Ahania in The Book of Ahania and The Four Zoas; 2 Visions of the Love Triangle and Adulterous Birth in Blake's The Four Zoas; 3 Blood in Blake's Poetry of Gender Struggle; 4 Ripped from Complacency: Violence and Feminist Moments in Blake; 5 In the 'Lilly of Havilah': Sapphism and Chastity in Blake's Jerusalem
6 'Abstinence sows sand all over': William Lost in Paradise7 ' The Sight of All These Things': Sexual Vision and Obscurity in Blake's Milton; 8 Erotic Spirituality in Blake's Last Judgement; 9 Blake's Bowers of Bliss: The Gitagovinda, The Four Zoas, and Two Illustrations for L'Allegro; 10 Hélyos and Ceylèn [A Poison Tree]; 11 The Hinges on the Doors of Marriage: The Body's Openness to Information in the Art of Stelarc and Blake; 12 The Sexual Life of Catherine B.: Women Novelists, Blake Scholars and Contemporary Fabulations of Catherine Blake; 13 Blake and Porn
14 Normalizing Perversity: Blake and Homosexuality in 201315 Commemorating the Vere-street 'Monsters'; Bibliography; Index
This book lays bare numerous sexy Blakes, arguing for both chastity and pornography, violence and domination as well as desire and redemption, and also journeying in the realms of conceptual sex and conceptual art. Fierce tussles over the body in, and the body of, the poet-artist's work celebrate Blakean attractions and repulsions.
Blake, William, 1757-1827
British literature.
Literature-Philosophy.
Culture-Study and teaching.
Poetry.
Literature, Modern-19th century.
British and Irish Literature.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Poetry and Poetics.
Nineteenth-Century Literature.