Machine generated contents note: List of Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction: 'What is now proved was once, only imagin'd'--H.Bruder &--T.Connolly -- Pansexuality (regained)--H.Kidd -- Blake and the Evolution of Same Sex Subjectivity--C.Z.Hobson -- Blake and the Queering of Jouissance--R.C.Sha -- Drawing Lines: Bodies, Sexualities and Performance in The Four Zoas--P.Otto -- Anal Blake: Bringing Up the Rear in Blakean Criticism--E.Effinger -- The Body of the Blasphemer--M.Myrone -- Trannies, Amputees and Disco Queens: Blake and Contemporary Queer Art--J.Whittaker -- 'Real Acting': 'Felpham Billy' and Grayson Perry Try It On--H.Bruder -- 'Fear not / To unfold your dark visions of torment': Blake and Emin's Bad Sex Aesthetic--T.Connolly -- 'Woes &--... sighs': Fantasies of Slavery in Visions of the Daughters of Albion--B.Stevens -- 'The lineaments of desire': Blakes Visions of the Daughters of Albion and Romantic Literary Treatments of Rape--C.Jackson-Houlston -- 'Yet I am an identity / I wish &--feel &--weep &--groan': Blakes Sentimentalism as (Peri)Performative--S.Clark -- 'By a False Wife Brought to the Gates of Death': Blake, Politics and Transgendered Performances--D.Fallon -- 'No Boys Work': Blake, Hayley and the Triumphs of (Intellectual) Paiderastia--M.Crosby -- 'Hayley on his Toilette': Blake, Hayley and Homophobia--S.Matthews -- 'My little Cane Sofa and the Bust of Sappho': Elizabeth Iremonger and the female world of book-collecting--K.Davies -- Works Cited -- Index.
Summary:
"Over the last decade, Romanticism and queer theory have been mutually illuminating and incredibly productive, but this canonical 'queering' has somehow veered away from William Blake. This collection looks anew at Blake's celebrated sexual visions, to see how they might appear once compulsory heterosex has been ditched as an interpretative norm"--Provided by publisher.
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