William Blake and the BodyWilliam Blake and the Body re evaluates Blake's central image: the human form. In Blake's designs, transparent skinned bodies passionately contort; in his verse, metamorphic bodies burst from each other in gory, gender bending births. The culmination is an ideal body uniting form and freedom. Connolly explores romantic era contexts like anatomical art, embryology, miscarriage and twentieth century theorists like those of Kristeva, Douglas, Girard to