Queer Blake

1. Introduction: ‘What is now proved was once, only imagin’d’
Helen P. Bruder, Tristanne Connolly

2. Pansexuality (regained)
Helen Kidd

3. Blake and the Evolution of Same-Sex Subjectivity
Christopher Z. Hobson

4. Blake and the Queering of Jouissance
Richard C. Sha

5. Drawing Lines: Bodies, Sexualities and Performance in The Four Zoas
Peter Otto

6. Anal Blake: Bringing up the Rear in Blakean Criticism
Elizabeth C. Effinger

7. The Body of the Blasphemer
Martin Myrone

8. Trannies, Amputees and Disco Queens: Blake and Contemporary Queer Art
Jason Whittaker

9. ‘Real Acting’: ‘Felpham Billy’ and Grayson Perry Try It On
Helen P. Bruder

10. ‘Fear not/To unfold your dark visions of torment’: Blake and Emin’s Bad Sex Aesthetic
Tristanne Connolly

11. ‘Woes & … sighs’: Fantasies of Slavery in Visions of the Daughters of Albion
Bethan Stevens

12. ‘The lineaments of… desire’: Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion and Romantic Literary Treatments of Rape
Caroline Jackson-Houlston

13. ‘Yet I am an identity/I wish & feel & weep & groan’: Blake’s Sentimentalism as (Peri)Performative
Steve Clark

14. ‘By a False Wife Brought to the Gates of Death’: Blake, Politics and Transgendered Performances
David Fallon

15. ‘No Boys Work’: Blake, Hayley and the Triumphs of (Intellectual) Paiderastia
Mark Crosby

16. ‘Hayley on his Toilette’: Blake, Hayley and Homophobia
Susan Matthews

17. ‘My little Cane Sofa and the Bust of Sappho;: Elizabeth Iremonger and the Female World of Book-Collecting
Keri Davies

Keywords: Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Literary Theory, Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, British and Irish Literature, Gender Studies