Beschreibung:
Examines Blake's place within a bourgeois culture in the process of redefining the role and meaning of sexuality.
Introduction; 1. 'Happy copulation': visual enthusiasm and the sexual gaze; 2. Fuseli and the 'female dream' of Europe; 3. A history of softness: William Hayley and the triumphs of temper; 4. The essay on old maids and the learned lady; 5. Cowper's fear: nature, population, apocalypse; 6. Blake reads Richardson: anthologies, annotation and cultures of reading; 7. A 'blank in nature': Blake and cultures of mourning; 8. Adultery at the turn of the century.