Queer Blake

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: ‘What is now proved was once, only imagin’d’....Pages 1-20
Pansexuality (regained)....Pages 21-22
Blake and the Evolution of Same-Sex Subjectivity....Pages 23-39
Blake and the Queering of Jouissance....Pages 40-49
Drawing Lines: Bodies, Sexualities and Performance in The Four Zoas....Pages 50-62
Anal Blake: Bringing up the Rear in Blakean Criticism....Pages 63-73
The Body of the Blasphemer....Pages 74-86
Trannies, Amputees and Disco Queens: Blake and Contemporary Queer Art....Pages 87-96
‘Real Acting’: ‘Felpham Billy’ and Grayson Perry Try It On....Pages 97-115
‘Fear not/To unfold your dark visions of torment’: Blake and Emin’s Bad Sex Aesthetic....Pages 116-139
‘Woes & … sighs’: Fantasies of Slavery in Visions of the Daughters of Albion....Pages 140-152
‘The lineaments of… desire’: Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion and Romantic Literary Treatments of Rape....Pages 153-162
‘Yet I am an identity/I wish & feel & weep & groan’: Blake’s Sentimentalism as (Peri)Performative....Pages 163-185
‘By a False Wife Brought to the Gates of Death’: Blake, Politics and Transgendered Performances....Pages 186-198
‘No Boys Work’: Blake, Hayley and the Triumphs of (Intellectual) Paiderastia....Pages 199-208
‘Hayley on his Toilette’: Blake, Hayley and Homophobia....Pages 209-220
‘My little Cane Sofa and the Bust of Sappho;: Elizabeth Iremonger and the Female World of Book-Collecting....Pages 221-235
Back Matter....Pages 236-264