William Blake and the Body

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.

Author: T. Connolly
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/06/2002
Pages: 249
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9780333968482

About the Author
TRISTANNE J. CONNOLLY is a Lecturer at Auburn University, Alabama. Her articles have appeared in Feminist Theology and Romanticism.