Why Mrs Blake Cried: William Blake and the Erotic Imagination [Import] [Paperback]

Marsha Keith Schuchard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 22, 2008

Written by a leading William Blake scholar, this is an intriguing and controversial history of the poet and artist, which reveals a world of waking visions, magical practices, sexual-spiritual experimentation, tantric sex and free love.


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About the Author

Marsha Keith Schuchard received a PhD in British Literature from the University of Texas at Austin, where she began exploring the esoteric-erotic underground of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century secret societies. In Restoring the Temple of Vision: Cabalistic Freemasonry and Stuart Culture (2002), she revealed the early traditions of Jewish and Masonic mysticism that would later influence William Blake. Her archival discoveries about the Moravian and Swedenborgian background of Blake's family reveal new sources for his revolutionary expressions of sexualized spirituality. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Product Details

• Paperback: 464 pages
• Publisher: Pimlico (January 22, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 184595128X
• ISBN-13: 978-1845951283
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,921,068 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)