Blake and Homosexuality

ISBN-13: 9781349630219 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 249 str.

Christopher Z. Hobson; C. Hobson

Opis

"Blake and Homosexuality" studies William Blake's developing sympathy with male and female homosexuality in a period of public hatred and victimization.

Recenzje

"In this careful and important study, Hobson argues that the critical record has distorted Blake's treatment of homosexuality..." - Judith C. Mueller, Eighteenth-Century Studies

"Hobson works thoroughly and logically to introduce a complex and important set of new meanings into both fields of British Romanticism and Blake studies." --The Wordsworth Circle

Spis treści

Eighteenth-Century Homosexuality and the Republican Tradition Blake and the Poetics of Masculinity Homosexuality, Resistance, and Apocalypse: History, Homosexuality, and Milton's Legacy The Cruelties of Moral Law: Homosexuality and the Revision of Milton Blake's Synthesis: Jerusalem Conclusion

O autorze

CHRISTOPHER Z. HOBSON is Assistant Professor of English Language Studies at the State University of New York, USA.