William Blake and the Daughters of Albion

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Blake Studies: A Critical Survey

   • Helen P. Bruder

   Pages 1-37

3. The Sins of the Fathers: Patriarchal Criticism and The Book of Thel

   • Helen P. Bruder

   Pages 38-54

4. ‘Slip-Sliding Away’: Some Problems with ‘Crying Love’ in the 1790s

   • Helen P. Bruder

   Pages 55-89

5. Blake, the Rights of Man and Political Feminism in 1790s

   • Helen P. Bruder

   Pages 90-132

6. ‘Go, Tell the Human Race that Woman’s Love is Sin!’: Sexual Politics and History in Blake’s Europe — A Prophecy

   • Helen P. Bruder

   Pages 133-178

7. ‘Conclusion’

   • Helen P. Bruder

   Pages 179-183

8. Back Matter

   Pages 184-291

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William Blake and the Daughters of Albion offers a challenge to the Blake establishment. By placing some of Blake's early prophetic works in startingly new historical contexts (most provocatively those of female conduct and pornography) a very different image of the radical Blake emerges. The book shows what can be achieved when a challenging methodology, feminist historicism, is brought to bear on a canonical writer and on now canonized interpretations of his work.

• bibliography
• Europe
• historicism
• history
• history of literature
• interpret
• knowledge
• love
• methodology
• politics
• William Blake
• British and Irish Literature

'Provocative, readable, significant.' - British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin & Review

'Helen Bruder's provocative, readable, significant book is an enlivening feminist-historicist study of Blake's early illuminated texts from 1789-1794 (leaving aside the Songs), and presents itself as a 'recontextualisation' of these works in the light of the failure of mainstream Blake criticism to acknowledge the ways in which Blake's writings are enmeshed in the sexual and gendered debates of his day.' - British Association for Romantic Studies Bulletin and Review

HELEN P. BRUDER

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