Tag Archive: Visions of the Daughters of Albion

Slavery: More Than Forced Labor

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Enslavement in Visions of the Daughters of Albion is depicted in William Blake’s progressive text. Oothoon, the female protagonist, is bound by society’s standpoint on purity. She is further bound when raped by… Continue reading

“The Soft Soul Of America”: Oothoon as Nature in Blake’s “Visions of the Daughters of Albion”

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William Blake’s poem Visions of the Daughters of Albion presents the rape of young Oothoon and the responses to this violence from Oothoon, her love Theotormon, and her assailant Bromion. Many scholars see substantial… Continue reading

Wollstonecraft in Visions of the Daughters of Albion

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There are some scholars who believe that Oothoon from Blake’s poem Visions of the Daughters of Albion is based on writer Mary Wollstonecraft. Wollstonecraft and Blake spent time together during weekly meetings of… Continue reading

William Blake’s Oothoon: Feminist or Fool?

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William Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion was written a year after Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women, a detailed article pushing for women’s education while critiquing the male… Continue reading

The French Revolution as it can be Read in Visions of the Daughters of Albion

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The French Revolution as it can be Read in Visions of the Daughters of Albion William Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion is saturated with symbolism and ideological proclamations, one of them… Continue reading

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