William Blake and the body / Tristanne J. Connolly.

  • Connolly, Tristanne J., 1970-
Date:
2002
  • Books

About this work

Description

"William Blake and the Body re-evaluates Blake's central image: the human form. Blake's designs depict transparent-skinned bodies contorted with passions, and in his verse, metamorphic bodies burst from each other in gory, gender-bending births. The culmination, on which all Blake's bodily depictions rely, is an ideal human which unites one and many, form and freedom, flesh and spirit. Connolly explores romantic-era contexts like anatomical art, embryology, miscarriage, ancient human sacrifice, and twentieth-century theories like those of Kristeva, Douglas and Girard, to provide an innovative new analysis of Blake's transformations of the body and identity."--Jacket.

Publication/Creation

Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Physical description

xvii, 249 pages : black and white illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-240) and index.

Contents

1. Textual Bodies -- 2. Graphic Bodies -- 3. Embodiment: Urizen -- 4. Embodiment: Reuben -- 5. Divisions and Comminglings: Sons and Daughters -- 6. Divisions and Comminglings: Emanations and Spectres -- 7. The Eternal Body.

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    History of Medicine
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ISBN

  • 0333968484
  • 9780333968482