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Visions of the daughters of Albion: the influence of Mary Wollstonecraft's life and career on William Blake
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Abstract The present study discussed the influence of one of the eighteenth-century British women of color, the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, on William Blake. By adopting a biographical and also a comparative approach, the authors tried to highlight the influences of Wollstonecraft's personal life, characte... view more
The present study discussed the influence of one of the eighteenth-century British women of color, the feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, on William Blake. By adopting a biographical and also a comparative approach, the authors tried to highlight the influences of Wollstonecraft's personal life, character, and career, chiefly her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), on one of William Blake's less-referred-to poems Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793). The study will help readers to both know Wollstonecraft's prominence and also to grasp more of William Blake and his poetry. The authors also attempted to show that William Blake was part of the early feminism of the late eighteenth century.... view less
Keywords
literature; influence; feminism; eighteenth century; woman; law; feminist; biography
Classification
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
Women's Studies, Feminist Studies, Gender Studies
Free Keywords
Wollstonecraft, M.; Blake, W.
Document language
English
Publication Year
2014
Page/Pages
p. 48-63
Journal
International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (2014) 40
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILSHS.40.48
ISSN
2300-2697
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed