Sexy Blake (Hardcover)

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on the contributors List of abbreviations Introduction: 'Bring me my Arrows of desire': Sexy Blake in the Twenty-First Century; Helen Bruder and Tristanne Connolly PART I: VIOLENCE AND DOMINANCE 1. Subjectivity, Mutuality and Masochism: Ahania in The Book of Ahania and The Four Zoas ; Lucy Cogan 2. The Hidden Love Triangle and Adulterous Birth in Blake's The Four Zoas ; Ayako Wada 3. Blood in Blake's Poetry of Gender Struggle; Yoko Ima-Izumi 4. Ripped from Complacency: Violence and Feminist Moments in Blake; Michelle Leigh Gompf PART II: CHASTITY, REDEMPTION AND FEMININE DESIRE 5. In the 'Lilly of Havilah': Sapphism and Chastity in Blake's Jerusalem ; Sean David Nelson 6. 'Abstinence sows sand all over': William Lost in Paradise; Magnus Ankarsjo 7. 'The Sight of All These Things': Sexual Vision and Obscurity in Blake's Milton ; David Shakespeare 8. Erotic Spirituality in Blake's 'Last Judgement'; Susanne Sklar 9. Blake's Bowers of Bliss: The Gitagovinda , The Four Zoas , and Two Illustrations for L'Allegro ; Kathryn Kruger PART III: CONCEPTUAL SEX, CONCEPTUAL ART 10. Helyos and Ceylen [A Poison Tree]; Tommy Mayberry 11. The Hinges on the Doors of Marriage: The Body's Openness to Information in the Art of Stelarc and Blake; Paige Morgan 12. The Sexual Life of Catherine B.: Women Novelists, Blake Scholars and Contemporary Fabulations of Catherine Blake; Angus Whitehead and Joel Gwynne 13. Blake and Porn; Philippa Simpson PART IV: CODA 14. Normalizing Perversity: Blake and Homosexuality in 2013; Christopher Z. Hobson 15. Commemorating the Vere-street 'Monsters'; Christopher Z. Hobson Bibliography Index