Blake and Homosexuality (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312234515)

Against the backdrop of Britain's underground 18th and early-19th century homosexual culture, mob persecutions, and executions of homosexuals, Hobson shows how Blake's hatred of sexual and religious hypocrisy and state repression, and his revolutionary social vision, led him gradually to accept homosexuality as an integral part of human sexuality. In the process, Blake rejected the antihomosexual bias of British radical tradition, revised his idealization of aggressive male heterosexuality and his male-centered view of gender, and refined his conception of the cooperative commonwealth.

Author: C. Hobson
ISBN-10: 0312234511
ISBN-13: 9780312234515
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/13/2001
Pages: 249
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.09lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2001 pg. 684