William Blake and the Body

Connolly, T.

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 twentieth-century theorists like those of Kristeva, Douglas, Girard to provide an innovative new analysis of Blake's transformations of body and identity.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2002-09-06

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333968482

DOI: 10.1057/9780230597013

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 249