Blake, Sexuality and Bourgeois Politeness (Cambridge Studies in Romanticism)
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| Rating | : | 4.12 (800 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1107449138 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 286 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-21 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Recent criticism has often overlooked William Blake's relationship to the bourgeois culture of sentimentalism, focusing instead on his association with the radical London underworld of revolutionaries, artisans and plebeian dissenters. With imaginative use of personalities, texts and images taken from an original range of archival material, Matthews returns to the Age of Sensibility and finds within its changing landscape answers to some of the crucial questions that remain about an artist and writer whose work continues to challenge scholars and critics today.. By removing Blake from their company and reading him instead through the polite world he knew well, Susan Matthews sets out to give us a new Blake, as well as a new angle onto the conflicted development of a bourgeois culture in the late eighteenth century w
Susan Matthews is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Roehampton University.
Matthews successfully carves out a new area of investigation and convincingly presents a new Blake." Sibylle Erle, Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly . "Matthews' book is a fierce, fascinating, and passionate response to the last thirty years in Blake studies; it revisits the debates initiated by the feminists to claim that Blake's opinion of both gender and sexuality can only make sense if firmly placed into their historical linguistic context
M. Paley said a genuinely fresh look at William Blake. This is a genuinely fresh look at William Blake, locating his work in relationto late 18th-century and early nineteenth-century discourse on or directedto women. William Hayley, the poet of sentiment, plays a role here, as doHannah more and Mary Wollstonecraft, vying for the attention of the female reader.Thoroughly grounded in t