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Adam Komisaruk examines “the varieties of erotic experience in an age of revolution” (1), covering British writings from c. 1780 to 1830. He posits an overriding theme of the relation between “sexual privatism” and “the public sphere,” and he cites most of the theorists (Habermas, Derrida, Foucault, Lacan, Laqueur, Sedgwick, etc.) whose ideas have long dominated such discourse. He organizes his study “according to some different sexual ‘publics’ in the period: legal treatments of rape, sodomy and adultery; high-profile sex scandal; population theory; and club culture” (7). While a large part of his narration focuses on these modern theoreticians, he also includes thematic readings of imaginative literature by Mary Hays, William Beckford, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Erasmus Darwin, and finally William Blake.
Adam Komisaruk考察了“革命时代的各种情爱体验”(1)，涵盖了大约1780年至1830年的英国作品。他提出了“性隐私主义”和“公共领域”之间关系的首要主题，并引用了大多数理论家(哈贝马斯、德里达、福柯、拉康、拉克尔、塞奇威克等)的观点，这些理论家的观点长期主导着这种论述。他“根据那个时期的一些不同的性‘公众’来组织他的研究:强奸、鸡奸和通奸的法律处理;备受瞩目的性丑闻;人口理论;(7)虽然他的大部分叙述集中在这些现代理论家身上，但他也包括玛丽·海斯、威廉·贝克福德、玛丽·沃斯通克拉夫特、威廉·戈德温、珀西·比希·雪莱、伊拉斯谟·达尔文和威廉·布莱克的想象文学的主题阅读。
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Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly was born as the Blake Newsletter on a mimeograph machine at the University of California, Berkeley in 1967. Edited by Morton D. Paley, the first issue ran to nine pages, was available for a yearly subscription rate of two dollars for four issues, and included the fateful words, "As far as editorial policy is concerned, I think the Newsletter should be just that—not an incipient journal." The production office of the Newsletter relocated to the University of New Mexico when Morris Eaves became co-editor in 1970, and then moved with him in 1986 to its present home at the University of Rochester.
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