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.
'seeks to use historicist methods to open up the larger picture of Blake's capacity to confound readers and viewers in his depiction of sexuality and gender.' The Year's Work in English Studies '[a] strong collection.' The BARS Review
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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;
