Against the backdrop of Britain’s underground 18th and early-19th century homosexual culture, mob persecutions, and executions of homosexuals, Hobson shows how Blake's hatred of sexual and religious hypocrisy and state repression, and his revolutionary social vision, led him gradually to accept homosexuality as an integral part of human sexuality. In the process, Blake rejected the antihomosexual bias of British radical tradition, revised his idealization of aggressive male heterosexuality and his male-centered view of gender, and refined his conception of the cooperative commonwealth.
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"In this careful and important study, Hobson argues that the critical record has distorted Blake's treatment of homosexuality..."--Judith C. Mueller, Eighteenth-Century Studies
"Hobson works thoroughly and logically to introduce a complex and important set of new meanings into both fields of British Romanticism and Blake studies." --The Wordsworth Circle
"Hobson works thoroughly and logically to introduce a complex and important set of new meanings into both fields of British Romanticism and Blake studies." --The Wordsworth Circle
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Christopher Z. Hobson is Associate Professor of English Language Studies at the State University of New York, College at Old Westbury.
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In the text of page 78 of William Blake's manuscript epic-prophecy The Four Zoas, his chained rebel figure, Orc, is tempted by the tyrant Urizen to cease his opposition. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bard's Song, William Blake, South Molton Street, Paradise Regained, Paradise Lost, Naked Beauty, Stratford Place, Morning Chronicle, Oxford Street, Hyde Park, Rahab Babylon, The British Library, The Task, Covering Cherub, Great Solemn Assembly, Mathematical Proportion, Museum of Fine Arts, Cleland's Memoirs, Flowers of Beulah, Little Girl Lost, Offences Against One's Self, Offences Against Taste, Prose Works, San Marino, Virgin Babylon New!
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In the text of page 78 of William Blake's manuscript epic-prophecy The Four Zoas, his chained rebel figure, Orc, is tempted by the tyrant Urizen to cease his opposition. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bard's Song, William Blake, South Molton Street, Paradise Regained, Paradise Lost, Naked Beauty, Stratford Place, Morning Chronicle, Oxford Street, Hyde Park, Rahab Babylon, The British Library, The Task, Covering Cherub, Great Solemn Assembly, Mathematical Proportion, Museum of Fine Arts, Cleland's Memoirs, Flowers of Beulah, Little Girl Lost, Offences Against One's Self, Offences Against Taste, Prose Works, San Marino, Virgin Babylon New!
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- Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (The Signet Classic Poetry Series) by John Milton on 13 pages
- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton on 9 pages
- William Blake by Peter Davies on 5 pages
- Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Oxford World's Classics) by John Cleland on 5 pages
- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (Oxford Paperbacks) by William Blake on 5 pages
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- William Blake and the Body by Tristanne J. Connolly in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- "And Never Know the Joy": Sex and the Erotic in English Poetry (DQR Studies in Literature 36) by C.C. Barfoot (Ed.) on page 199
- Queer Gothic by George Haggerty in Back Matter
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