Women Reading William Blake [Hardcover]

Women Reading William Blake brings together the reflections and arguments of a varied group of women academics and artists and reveals a rich heritage of feminist scholarship. This landmark volume will be of great use for scholars and students of Blake as well as those interested in seeing how a community of women writers have responded.List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introductory Note; H.P.Bruder The Bread of sweet Thought & the Wine of Delight': Gender, Aesthetics and Blake's 'dear friend of Mrs Anna Flaxman'; H.P.Bruder Peeking over the Garden Wall; T.Chevalier Blake, Literary History and Sexual Difference; C.Colebrook Transgender Juvenilia: Blake's and Cristall's Poetical Sketches ; T.J. Connolly 'The right stuff in the right hands': Anna Gilchrist and The Life of William Blake ; S.Dent William Blake's Lavaterian Women: Eleanor, Rowena, and Ahania; S.Erle Blake's Golden Chapel: The Serpent Within and Those Who Stood Without; E.R.Freed How To Nearly Wreck Your Life by Living Blake; A. Stephen Aesthetic Agency? Enitharmon in Blake's Europe ; N.M.Goslee 'No Earthly Parents I confess': The Clod, the Pebble and Catherine Blake; G.Greer The Impact of Feminism on Blake Studies in Japan; Y.Ima-Izumi Mary and Martha on the Mount of Olives: Questions Toward a Commentary on Blake's Watercolour Illustrations of the Gospels; M.L.Johnson The Trimurti Meet the Zoas: 'Hindoo' Strategies in the Poetry of William Blake; K.S.Kruger Towards an Ungendered Romanticism: Blake, Robinson and Smith in 1793; J.M.Labbe William Blake and Romantic Women Poets: 'Then what have I to do with thee?'; H.K.Linkin 'Endless Their Labour': Women in Blake's Illuminated Works and the British Workforce; C.L.McClenahan Sentiment, Motherhood and the Sea in Gillray and Blake: C.McCreery Framing Eve: Reading Blake's Illustrations; J.D.Michael Lucid Dreaming/ Lucid Reading: Notes on Sleepers in Blake's Songs ; G.S. Norvig Valkyries and Sibyls: Old Norse Voices of Female ló“