'Forming the fluctuating globe': weaving women and corporeal cartography in Blake’s Jerusalem

There is a passage in Jerusalem in which Los enjoins the Daughters of Albion to ‘Form the fluctuating Globe according to their will’ using their special craft — weaving (pl. 83, l. 34, E241). The question of ‘will’ is equivocal: in Blake’s time the term ‘Daughter’ was used to refer to young female w...