Women Reading William Blake

TRACY CHEVALIER Writer, Author of Girl with a Pearl Earring, UK CLAIRE COLEBROOK Professor of Modern Literary Theory, University of Edinburgh, UK TRISTANNE J. CONNOLLY Assistant Professor of English at St. Jerome's, University of Waterloo, Canada SHIRLEY DENT Press Officer for the Institute of Ideas, UK SIBYLLE ERLE Teaches at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK EUGENIE R. FREED Research Fellow in English, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa ADDIE STEPHEN, Freelance writer NANCY MOORE GOSLEE Professor of English, University of Tennessee, USA GERMAINE GREER Renowned academic, writer, and broadcaster YOKO IMA-IZUMI Professor of English and Film Studies, University of Tsukuba, Japan MARY LYNN JOHNSON Special Assistant (Emerita), President's Office, University of Iowa, USA KATHRYN SULLIVAN KRUGER Former professor of English at Lynn University, Boca Raton, Florida , USA JACQUELINE M. LABBE Professor of English, University of Warwick, UK HARRIET KRAMER LINKIN Professor of English, New Mexico State University, USA CATHERINE L. MCCLENAHAN English Department, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, USA CINDY MCCREERY Lecturer in History, University of Sydney, Australia JENNIFER DAVIS MICHAEL Teaches English, University of the South, USA GERDA S. NORVIG Formerly Professor of English, University of Colorado, USA HEATHER O'DONOGHUE Reader, University of Oxford and Professorial Fellow at Linacre College ALICIA OSTRIKER Professor Emerita of English, Rutgers University, USA TILOTTAMA RAJAN Canada Research Chair, University of Western Ontario, Canada MARSHA KEITH SCHUCHARD Blake scholar SHEILA A. SPECTOR Independent Scholar JUNE STURROCK Emerita Professor of English, Simon Fraser University, Canada IRENE TAYLER Professor Emerita of Literature, M.I.T., USA JANET WARNER Retired Professor of English, York University, Toronto, Canada BRENDA WEBSTER Critic, translator, novelist and President of PEN West SUSAN J. WOLFSON Professor of English, Princeton University, USA JULIA M. WRIGHT Canada Research Chair in European Studies, Dalhousie University, Canada

List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introductory Note; H.P.Bruder The Bread of sweet Thought & the Wine of Delight': Gender, Aesthetics and Blake's 'dear friend of Mrs Anna Flaxman'; H.P.Bruder Peeking over the Garden Wall; T.Chevalier Blake, Literary History and Sexual Difference; C.Colebrook Transgender Juvenilia: Blake's and Cristall's Poetical Sketches ; T.J. Connolly 'The right stuff in the right hands': Anna Gilchrist 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; A. Stephen Aesthetic Agency? Enitharmon in Blake's Europe ; N.M.Goslee 'No Earthly Parents I confess': The Clod, the Pebble and Catherine Blake; G.Greer The Impact of Feminism on Blake Studies in Japan; Y.Ima-Izumi Mary and Martha on the Mount of Olives: Questions Toward a Commentary on Blake's Watercolour Illustrations of the Gospels; 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 Framing Eve: Reading Blake's Illustrations; J.D.Michael 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 Prophetic 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.Schuchard A Kabbalistic Reading of Jerusalem 's Prose Plates; S.A.Spector Britania counter Britannia: How Jerusalem Revises Patriotism; J.Sturrock Blake: Sex and Selfhood; I.Tayler Blake Moments; J.Warner Blake, Sex and Women, Revisited; B.Webster The Strange Difference of Female 'Experience'; S.J.Wolfson Baillie and Blake: At the Intersection of Allegory and Drama; J.M.Wright Index