- Published: 31 December 2012
- ISBN: 9781448139439
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 464
Why Mrs Blake Cried
William Blake and the Erotic Imagination
- Published: 31 December 2012
- ISBN: 9781448139439
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 464
Fans of biographical minutiae will find it invaluable, and the closing insights into the refusal of Blake's libido to synchronise with his fading physicality are deeply moving.
Niall Griffiths, Telegraph
This remarkable book opens the reader's eyes to what fired Blake's writings and art
Independent
This fascinating book reconfigures the way we see the 18th century...Schuchard's book brings a fascinating new light to bear on Blake's work
Philip Hoare, Sunday Telegraph
Exposes a forgotten visionary/sexual underworld. Scholarship with the momentum of a detective story
Helen Simpson, Guardian
Schuchard reveals a weird esoteric, erotic and apocalyptic counterculture, brewing in what we otherwise consider the "enlightened" 18th century.
Gary Lachman, Independent on Sunday
Marsha Schuchard has found that grail of researchers - original documents that confirm suspicions about her subject... A fantastic miscellany of sex and mysticism.
Jad Adams, Guardian