Queer Blake

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Illustrations......Page 8
Notes on Contributors......Page 9
List of Abbreviations......Page 12
Introduction: ‘What is now proved was once, only imagin’d’......Page 14
Pansexuality (regained)......Page 34
1 Blake and the Evolution of Same-Sex Subjectivity......Page 36
2 Blake and the Queering of Jouissance......Page 53
3 Drawing Lines: Bodies, Sexualities and Performance in The Four Zoas......Page 63
4 Anal Blake: Bringing up the Rear in Blakean Criticism......Page 76
5 The Body of the Blasphemer......Page 87
6 Trannies, Amputees and Disco Queens: Blake and Contemporary Queer Art......Page 100
7 ‘Real Acting’: ‘Felpham Billy’ and Grayson Perry Try It On......Page 110
8 ‘Fear not / To unfold your dark visions of torment’: Blake and Emin’s Bad Sex Aesthetic......Page 129
9 ‘Woes & . . . sighs’: Fantasies of Slavery in Visions of the Daughters of Albion......Page 153
10 ‘The lineaments of . . . desire’: Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion and Romantic Literary Treatments of Rape......Page 166
11 ‘Yet I am an identity / I wish & feel & weep & groan’: Blake’s Sentimentalism as (Peri)Performative......Page 176
12 ‘By a False Wife Brought to the Gates of Death’: Blake, Politics and Transgendered Performances......Page 199
13 ‘No Boys Work’: Blake, Hayley and the Triumphs of (Intellectual) Paiderastia......Page 212
14 ‘Hayley on his Toilette’: Blake, Hayley and Homophobia......Page 222
15 ‘My little Cane Sofa and the Bust of Sappho’: Elizabeth Iremonger and the Female World of Book-Collecting......Page 234
Works Cited......Page 249
Index......Page 269