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Blake, Sexuality and Bourgeois Politeness
Contributor(s): Matthews, Susan (Author)

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 ISBN: 1107449138     ISBN-13: 9781107449138
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $39.89  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: June 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Dewey: 821.7
Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Physical Information: 0.6" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.85 lbs) 286 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - British Isles
Features: Illustrated, Price on Product
 
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Recent criticism has often overlooked William Blake's relationship to the bourgeois culture of sentimentalism, focusing instead on his association with the radical London underworld of revolutionaries, artisans and plebeian dissenters. By removing Blake from their company and reading him instead through the polite world he knew well, Susan Matthews sets out to give us a new Blake, as well as a new angle onto the conflicted development of a bourgeois culture in the late eighteenth century which was in the process of redefining the role and meaning of sexuality. With imaginative use of personalities, texts and images taken from an original range of archival material, Matthews returns to the Age of Sensibility and finds within its changing landscape answers to some of the crucial questions that remain about an artist and writer whose work continues to challenge scholars and critics today.

Contributor Bio(s): Matthews, Susan: - Susan Matthews is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Roehampton University.
 
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