Women reading William Blake /

"Blake's works have long been objects of troubled fascination for female readers and writers. Women Read William Blake brings together the thoughts and arguments of women academic and writers redressing the under-representation of the rich heritage of Blake feminist criticism which now exists. This unique volume contains essays by some of the most eminent scholars in the field, and will be of great use for scholars and students of Blake as well as those interested in seeing how a community of women writers have responded- over three turbulent decades--to the art of a canonical "dead, white, male."Includes bibliographical references and index.Blake's Mary and Martha on the Mount of Olives: questions on the watercolour illustrations of the gospels / Mary Lynn Johnson -- The Trimurti meet the Zoas: 'Hindoo' strategies in the poetry of William Blake / Kathryn Sullivan Kruger -- Towards an ungendered romanticism: Blake, Robinson and Smith in 1793 / Jacqueline M. Labbe -- William Blake and romantic women poets: 'Then what have I to do with thee?' / Harriet Kramer Linkin -- 'Endless their labour': women in Blake's illuminated works and in the British workforce / Catherine L. McClenahan -- Sentiment, motherhood and the sea in Gillray and Blake / Cindy McCreery -- Framing Eve: reading Blake's illustrations / Jennifer Davis Michael -- Lucid dreaming / lucid reading: notes on sleepers in Blake's songs / Gerda S. Norvig -- Valkyries and Sibyls: old Norse voices of female authority in Blake's prophetic books / Heather O'Donoghue -- Re-deeming scripture: my William Blake revisited / Alicia Ostriker --^The gender of los(s): Blake's work in the 1790s / Tilottama Rajan -- The 'secret' and the 'gift': recovering the suppressed religious heritage of William Blake and Hilda Doolittle / Marsha Keith Schuchard -- A kabbalistic reading of Jerusalem's prose plates / Shelia A. Spector -- Brittannia counter Britannia: how Jerusalem revises patriotism / June Sturrock -- Blake: sex and selfhood / Irene Tayler -- Blake moments / Janet Warner -- Blake, sex and women revisited / Brenda Webster -- The strange difference of female 'experience' / Susan J. Wolfson -- Baillie and Blake: at the intersection of allegory and drama / Julia M. Wright.'The bread of sweet thought & the wine of delight': gender, aesthetics and Blake's dear friend Mrs Anna Flaxman' / Helen P. Bruder -- Peeking over the garden wall / Tracy Chevalier -- Blake, literary history and sexual difference / Claire Colebrook -- Transgender juvenilia: Blake's and Cristall's poetical sketches / Tristanne Connolly -- 'The right stuff in the right hands': Anne Gilchrist and the life of William Blake / Shirley Dent -- William Blake's Lavaterian women: Eleanor, Rowena and Ahania / Sibylle Erle -- Blake's golden chapel: the serpent within and those who stood without / Eugenie R. Freed -- How to nearly wreck your life by living Blake / Addie Stephen -- Aesthetic agency? enitharmon in Blake's Europe / Nancy Moore Goslee -- 'No earthly parents I confess': the clod, the pebble and Catherine Blake / Germaine Greer -- The impact of Feminism on Blake studies in Japan / Yoko Ima-Izumi --^"Blake's works have long been objects of troubled fascination for female readers and writers. Women Read William Blake brings together the thoughts and arguments of women academic and writers redressing the under-representation of the rich heritage of Blake feminist criticism which now exists. This unique volume contains essays by some of the most eminent scholars in the field, and will be of great use for scholars and students of Blake as well as those interested in seeing how a community of women writers have responded- over three turbulent decades--to the art of a canonical "dead, white, male.