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Article: Blake and Homosexuality.(Book Review)
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- Criticism
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- March 22, 2002
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by Christopher Z. Hobson. New York: Palgrave, 2000. Pp. xxii + 249. $49.95 cloth.
In Blake and Homosexuality Christopher Z. Hobson sets out to champion Blake's verbal and visual references to homosexuality as "a compact, flexible way to refer to the brutality and hypocrisy of conventional morality, defiance of its strictures, and the possibility of alternative, mutualistic forms of love" (3). Positioning his project as a response to W. J. T. Mitchell's 1982 call for Blakeans to contemplate "`the dangerous Blake,'" the Blake who presents "`images of rape, lust, sado-masochism, and other scenes of abnormal sexuality,'" including "scenes of homosexual fellatio in ...