Marsha Keith Schuchard

William Blake's Sexual Path to Spiritual Vision

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Produktbeschreibung

William Blake is revered as an artist and poet whose work expressed an authentically spiritual vision. This book investigates the radical psychosexual practices and the erotic and visionary experiments that fueled much of Blake's creative life. It shows that Blake was influenced by kabbalistic and tantric rituals designed to transcend the bonds of social convention.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company
• First U.S. of "
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: April 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 662g
• ISBN-13: 9781594772115
• ISBN-10: 1594772118
• Artikelnr.: 23166606

Autorenporträt

Marsha Keith Schuchard received a Ph.D. in British literature for her explorations into the esoteric-erotic underground traditions of 17th- to 20th-century secret societies and their influence on British and Irish poets and artists. She is the author of Restoring the Temple of Vision and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of Illustrations
Introduction: Why Mrs. Blake Cried--William Blake's Sexual Path to
Spiritual Vision
Part One
1 Religion of the Heart
2 The Mystical Marriage
3 Sex, Wounds, and Blood
4 The Mirth of the Justified-Sinner Community
5 Swedenborg and Kabbalistic Science
6 Erotic Dreams and Ecstatic Visions
7 Sacramental Sexuality
8 Judaized Yoga
9 Phallic Feet and Tantric Toes
Part Two
10 Moravian Deaths and Blake Beginnings
11 School of Art and Eros
12 Apprentice in Art and Romance
13 The Celestial Bed
14 The Temple of Hymen
15 Merry Making and Edifying Discourses
16 Animal Magnetism and the Furor Uterinus
17 The Men of Desire
18 Perpetual Virile Potency
19 The Frozen Marriage Bed
20 The Visionary Vulva
21 Priapic Prayer and Randy Antiquarians
22 Kabbalistic Cherubim and Yogic Yonis
23 Thunder of Thought & Flames of Fierce Desire
Epilogue
Appendix: Moravian Archive Letters of Petition
Notes
Works Cited
Index