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Description for Queer Blake
Hardcover. Numerous claims have been made for a sexual Blake, from post-lapsarian pessimist to free-loving hippie. Queer Blake raises a flag for the weird, perverse, camp and gay directions of the artist's life and work. The contributors occupy diverse positions, illustrating what fresh interpretations result when heterosexuality is ditched as an ideal. Editor(s): Bruder, Helen P.; Connolly, Tristanne. Num Pages: 275 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC; JFSK2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 426.
Numerous claims have been made for a sexual Blake, from post-lapsarian pessimist to free-loving hippie. Queer Blake raises a flag for the weird, perverse, camp and gay directions of the artist's life and work. The contributors occupy diverse positions, illustrating what fresh interpretations result when heterosexuality is ditched as an ideal.
Numerous claims have been made for a sexual Blake, from post-lapsarian pessimist to free-loving hippie. Queer Blake raises a flag for the weird, perverse, camp and gay directions of the artist's life and work. The contributors occupy diverse positions, illustrating what fresh interpretations result when heterosexuality is ditched as an ideal.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780230218369
SKU
V9780230218369
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About N/A
HELEN P. BRUDER is an independent scholar and author of William Blake and the Daughters of Albion (1997), 'Blake and Gender Studies' in Palgrave Advances in William Blake Studies (ed. Nicholas M. Williams, 2006) and edited Women Reading William Blake (2007). TRISTANNE CONNOLLY is Assistant Professor in the English Department at St. Jerome's University in the University of Waterloo, Canada. She is ... Read more
Reviews for Queer Blake
“Queer Blake is a provocative and often informative collection of essays that considers the spectrum of genders and gendering in Blake’s work and life and in Blake criticism. … Overall, the quality is high. Where Queer Blake is at its best, to my mind, is in those chapters where the essays are both historical and theoretical–where the writers explore both ... Read more