Women Reading William Blake Opposition Is True Friendship

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. "

HELEN BRUDER is an independent scholar based in Oxford. She is the author of the feminist study, 'William Blake and the Daughters of Albion' (1997) and
recently reviewed Blakean 'Gender' scholarship in 'The Palgrave Guide to
Advances in William Blake Studies' (2006). She is currently working on the
neglected women in Blake's circle, especially the letters and journals of
Blake's lifelong friend Ann Flaxman.

The Bread of sweet Thought and the Wine of Delight: Gender, Aesthetics and Blake's "dear friend of Mrs Anna Flaxman"--H.P.Bruder * Title to be confirmed--T.Chevalier * The Problem of Sexual Difference: Form in Milton--C.Colebrook * Transgender Juvenalia: Blake's and Cristall's Poetical Sketches--T.J.Connolly * Framing Eve: Reading Blake's Illustrations--J.M.Davis * A Women's Estimate of an Audience: Anna Gilchrest and The Life of William Blake--S.Dent * William Blake's Lavaterian Women: Eleanor, Rowena, and Ahania--S.Erle * Blake's Golden Chapel: The Serpent Within and Those Who Stood Without--E.R.Freed * How To Nearly Wreck Your Life by Living Blake--D.H.George * Title to be confirmed--G.Greer * Artistic Agency? Enitharmon in Blake's Europe--N.M.Goslee * The Impact of Feminist Theories on Blake Studies in Japan--Y.Ima-Izumi * Female Disciples in Blake's Biblical Watercolours: Notes Towards an Imagined Commentary--M.L.Johnson * The Trimurti Meet the Zoas: 'Hindoo' Strategies in the Poetry of William Blake-- K.S.Kruger * Towards an Ungendered Romanticism: Blake, Robinson and Smith in 1793--J.M.Labbe * William Blake and Romantic Women Poets: 'Then what have I to do with thee?'--H.K.Linkin * Endless Their Labour: Women in Blake's Illuminated Works and the British Workforce--C.L.McClenahan * Sentiment, Motherhood and the Sea in Gillray and Blake: C.McCreery * Lucid Dreaming/ Lucid Reading: Notes on Sleepers in Blake's Songs--G.S. Norvig * Valkyries and Sibyls: Old Norse Voices of Female Authority in Blake's Prohphetic Books--H.O'Donoghue * Re-Deeming Scripture: My William Blake Revisited--A.Ostriker * The Gender of Los(s): Blake's Work in the 1790s--T.Rajan * The 'Secret' and the 'Gift': Recovering the Suppressed Religious Heritage of William Blake and Hilda Dolittle--M.K.Sutherland * A Kabbalistic Reading of Jersulam's Prose Plates--S.Spector * Britania counter Britania: How Jerusalem Revises Patriotism--J.Sturrock * Blake: Sex and Selfhood--I.Taylor * Blake Moments--J.Warner * Blake, Sex and Women, Revisited--B.Webster * The Strange Difference of Female 'Experience'--S.Wolfson * Baille and Blake: At the Intersection of Allegory and Drama--J.M.Wright * Index The Bread of sweet Thought and the Wine of Delight: Gender, Aesthetics and Blake's "dear friend of Mrs Anna Flaxman"--H.P.Bruder * Title to be confirmed--T.Chevalier * The Problem of Sexual Difference: Form in Milton--C.Colebrook * Transgender Juvenalia: Blake's and Cristall's Poetical Sketches--T.J.Connolly * Framing Eve: Reading Blake's Illustrations--J.M.Davis * A Women's Estimate of an Audience: Anna Gilchrest and The Life of William Blake--S.Dent * William Blake's Lavaterian Women: Eleanor, Rowena, and Ahania--S.Erle * Blake's Golden Chapel: The Serpent Within and Those Who Stood Without--E.R.Freed * How To Nearly Wreck Your Life by Living Blake--D.H.George * Title to be confirmed--G.Greer * Artistic Agency? Enitharmon in Blake's Europe--N.M.Goslee * The Impact of Feminist Theories on Blake Studies in Japan--Y.Ima-Izumi * Female Disciples in Blake's Biblical Watercolours: Notes Towards an Imagined Commentary--M.L.Johnson * The Trimurti Meet the Zoas: 'Hindoo' Strategies in the Poetry of William Blake-- K.S.Kruger * Towards an Ungendered Romanticism: Blake, Robinson and Smith in 1793--J.M.Labbe * William Blake and Romantic Women Poets: 'Then what have I to do with thee?'--H.K.Linkin * Endless Their Labour: Women in Blake's Illuminated Works and the British Workforce--C.L.McClenahan * Sentiment, Motherhood and the Sea in Gillray and Blake: C.McCreery * Lucid Dreaming/ Lucid Reading: Notes on Sleepers in Blake's Songs--G.S. Norvig * Valkyries and Sibyls: Old Norse Voices of Female Authority in Blake's Prohphetic Books--H.O'Donoghue * Re-Deeming Scripture: My William Blake Revisited--A.Ostriker * The Gender of Los(s): Blake's Work in the 1790s--T.Rajan * The 'Secret' and the 'Gift': Recovering the Suppressed Religious Heritage of William Blake and Hilda Dolittle--M.K.Sutherland * A Kabbalistic Reading of Jersulam's Prose Plates--S.Spector * Britania counter Britania: How Jerusalem Revises Patriotism--J.Sturrock * Blake: Sex and Selfhood--I.Taylor * Blake Moments--J.Warner * Blake, Sex and Women, Revisited--B.Webster * The Strange Difference of Female 'Experience'--S.Wolfson * Baille and Blake: At the Intersection of Allegory and Drama--J.M.Wright * Index