William Blake and the Body re-evaluates Blake's central image: the human form. In Blake's designs, transparent-skinned bodies passionately contort; in his verse, metamorphic bodies burst from each other in gory, gender-bending births. The culmination is an ideal body uniting form and freedom. Connolly explores romantic-era contexts like anatomical art, embryology, miscarriage, and 20th century theorists like those of Kristeva, Douglas, and Girard to provide an innovative new analysis of Blake's transformations of body and identity.
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Tristanne J. Connolly is at Auburn University, Alabama.
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caverned man, two little orbs, two little caves, anatomical art, direful changes, dismal woe, vehicular form, sense catalogues, eternal communication, woven body, graphic bodies, four zoas, illuminated books, eternal body, infant sorrow, visionary forms, infant joy, human form divine, miscarried child, serpentine line, cosmic man, gravid uterus Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
William Blake, William Hunter, The First Book, John Hunter, Catherine Blake, Paradise Lost, Nelson Hilton, Holy Spirit, Royal Academy, Blake Trust, Anne Mellor, Mary Douglas, Song of Songs, William Cowper, British Lying-In Hospital, Hilton Literal, Critical Heritage, Descriptive Catalogue, Elohim Creating Adam, Morris Eaves, Valerie Hey, Anatomy of Humane Bodies, Barbara Stafford, Blake Records, Brenda Webster New!
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William Blake, William Hunter, The First Book, John Hunter, Catherine Blake, Paradise Lost, Nelson Hilton, Holy Spirit, Royal Academy, Blake Trust, Anne Mellor, Mary Douglas, Song of Songs, William Cowper, British Lying-In Hospital, Hilton Literal, Critical Heritage, Descriptive Catalogue, Elohim Creating Adam, Morris Eaves, Valerie Hey, Anatomy of Humane Bodies, Barbara Stafford, Blake Records, Brenda Webster New!
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- The Four Zoas by William Blake on 18 pages
- The Book of Urizen by William Blake on 8 pages
- Book Of Urizen, The (BCL1-PR English Literature) by William Blake on 8 pages
- Visions of the Daughters of Albion by William Blake on 7 pages
- William Blake by Robin Hamlyn on 6 pages
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