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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.
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'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
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HELEN P. BRUDER
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Book Title: William Blake and the Daughters of Albion
Authors: Helen P. Bruder
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230379572
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1997
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-64036-4Published: 28 April 1997
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37957-2Published: 17 December 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 291
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, British and Irish Literature