H. Bruder

Women Reading William Blake brings together the reflections and arguments of a varied group of women academics and artists and reveals a rich heritage of feminist scholarship. This landmark volume will be of great use for scholars and students of Blake as well as those interested in seeing how a community of women writers have responded.

William Blake and the Daughters of Albion offers a challenge to the Blake establishment. By placing some of Blake's early prophetic works in startingly new historical contexts (most provocatively those of female conduct and pornography) a very different image of the radical Blake emerges. The book shows what can be achieved when a challenging methodology, feminist historicism, is brought to bear on a canonical writer and on now canonized interpretations of his work.