Blake and homosexuality
By: Christopher Z. Hobson.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Knowledge -- Psychology; Homosexuality and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century; Homosexuality and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century; Homosexuality, Male, in literature; Sexual orientation in literature; Sex in literature
Description: "Against the backdrop of Britain's underground eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century homosexual culture, mob persecutions, and executions of homosexuals, Blake and Homosexuality shows how the Romantic poet-artist's hatred of sexual and religious hypocrisy and state repression, and his revolutionary social vision, led him gradually to accept homosexuality as an integral part of human sexuality.

In the process, Blake rejected the antihomosexual bias of British radical tradition, revised his own early idealization of male heterosexual aggression, developed a less male-centered view of gender, and refined his conception of the cooperative commonwealth."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-236) and index.