William Blake and the Body

William Blake and the Body re-evaluates Blake''s central image: the human form. In Blake''s designs, transparent-skinned bodies passionately contort; in his verse, metamorphic bodies burst from each other in gory, gender-bending births. The culmination is an ideal body uniting form and freedom. Connolly explores romantic-era contexts like anatomical art, embryology, miscarriage and twentieth-centu...