Re-envisioning Blake

by Crosby, Mark; Patenaude, Troy; Whitehead, Angus

• ISBN13: 9780230275515
• ISBN10: 0230275516
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-04-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Today Blake scholarship is experiencing a period of unprecedented variety and mutuality. These essays reflect the methodological cross-fertilizations now taking place in Blake scholarship and explore the range of debates and contentions generated by these encounters, embracing figurative, structural, and material readings of Blake's life and works.

Author Biography

MARK CROSBY Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Queen's University Belfast, UK. He has published articles on Blake in various journals and chapter essays in Blake and Conflict (2009), Blake in Our Time: Essays in Honour of G. E. Bentley, Jr (2010), and Blake 2.0 (2011). Mark is currently finishing a monograph on Blake and patronage. <BR><BR>TROY PATENAUDE Researcher and Lecturer at the University of Calgary, Canada. His published work on Blake's 1809 exhibition remains the only comprehensive exploration of this key event in Blake's life. He has also published and presented on the relationship between arts, culture, and nature more generally, often drawing inspiration from Blake. Troy's next Blake project explores Blake in Canada. <BR><BR>ANGUS WHITEHEAD Assistant Professor of English Literature at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He has published numerous papers on William and Catherine Blake, most recently in Blake and Conflict (2009), Blake in Our Time (2010), and Blake 2.0 (2011). He is currently completing a biography of the Blakes' last years and posthumous lives.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Notes on Contributors	p. xii
List of Abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction: 'the fierce rushing of th'inhabitants together'	p. 1
'Mutual interchange': Life, Liberty, and Community	p. 13
Inconvenient Truths: Re-historicizing the Politics of Dissent and Antinomianism	p. 30
'Thou readst white where I readst black': William Blake, the Hymn 'Jerusalem', and the Far Right	p. 48
Blake, America, and Enlightenment	p. 63
Georgian Superwoman or 'the maddest of the two'? Recovering the Historical Catherine Blake, 1762-1831	p. 83
Blake's Malkin	p. 108
Prospects of Divine Humanity: A Vision of Heaven Earth, and Hell	p. 130
The Death and Assumption of Blake's Mary: Anomalous Subjects in the Biblical Watercolour Series for Thomas Butts	p. 144
Christ and the Bridal Bed: Eighteenth-Century Moravian Erotic Spirituality as a Possible Influence on Blake	p. 160
'nourished by the spirits of forests and floods': Blake, Nature, and Modern Environmentalism	p. 180
Zoamorphosis: 250 Years of Blake Mutations	p. 207
Afterword: The End? Remember Me!	p. 225
References	p. 232
Index	p. 249
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