Sexy Blake

1. Introduction: ‘Bring me my Arrows of desire’: Sexy Blake in the Twenty-First Century
Helen P. Bruder, Tristanne Connolly

I. Violence and Dominance

2. Subjectivity, Mutuality and Masochism: Ahania in The Book of Ahania and The Four Zoas

Lucy Cogan

3. Visions of the Love Triangle and Adulterous Birth in Blake’s The Four Zoas

Ayako Wada

4. Blood in Blake’s Poetry of Gender Struggle
Yoko Ima-Izumi

5. Ripped from Complacency: Violence and Feminist Moments in Blake
Michelle Leigh Gompf

II. Chastity, Redemption and Feminine Desire

6. In the ‘Lilly of Havilah’: Sapphism and Chastity in Blake’s Jerusalem

Sean David Nelson

7. ‘Abstinence sows sand all over’: William Lost in Paradise
Magnus Ankarsjö

8. ‘The Sight of All These Things’: Sexual Vision and Obscurity in Blake’s Milton

David Shakespeare

9. Erotic Spirituality in Blake’s Last Judgement

Susanne Sklar

10. Blake’s Bowers of Bliss: The Gitagovinda, The Four Zoas, and Two Illustrations for L’Allegro

Kathryn Sullivan Kruger

III. Conceptual Sex, Conceptual Art

11. Hélyos and Ceylèn [A Poison Tree]
Tommy Mayberry

12. The Hinges on the Doors of Marriage: The Body’s Openness to Information in the Art of Stelarc and Blake
Paige Morgan

13. The Sexual Life of Catherine B.: Women Novelists, Blake Scholars and Contemporary Fabulations of Catherine Blake
Angus Whitehead, Joel Gwynne

14. Blake and Porn
Philippa Simpson

IV. Coda

15. Normalizing Perversity: Blake and Homosexuality in 2013
Christopher Z. Hobson

16. Commemorating the Vere-street ‘Monsters’
Christopher Z. Hobson

Keywords: Literature, British and Irish Literature, Literary Theory, Cultural Theory, Poetry and Poetics, Nineteenth-Century Literature