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William Blake and the Daughters of Albion
H. Bruder
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Description for William Blake and the Daughters of Albion
Hardcover. Offering a challenge to the Blake establishment, this text places some of Blake's early prophetic works in new historical contexts. The book shows what can be achieved when feminist historicism is brought to bear on a canonical writer and on now canonized interpretations of his work. Num Pages: 302 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSBF; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 28. Weight in Grams: 588.
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.
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.
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Number of Pages
291
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333640364
SKU
V9780333640364
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99-15
About H. Bruder
HELEN P. BRUDER
Reviews for William Blake and the Daughters of Albion
'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 ... Read more