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This is the first critical volume to examine William Blake as a visionary thinker on disaster and the advent of modernity.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments Introduction: From Prophecy to Disaster
Tilottama Rajan and Joel Faflak
1. Primitive Arts and Sciences and the Body of Knowledge in Blake’s Epics
Noah Heringman
2. System(s), Body, Corpus: The Autogenesis of Blake’s Lambeth Books
Tilottama Rajan
3. "Second Birth" and Gothic Fictions in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk, Catherine Blake’s "Agnes," and William Blake’s Vala or The Four Zoas
Peter Otto
4. Blake’s Milton and the Disaster of Psychoanalysis
Joel Faflak
5. Blake’s Blush: Wartime Shame in "London" and Jerusalem
Lily Gurton-Wachter
6. Blake’s Nervous System: Hypochondria, Judaism, and Jerusalem
Christopher Bundock
7. Forgiving Blake’s Disaster: The Changing Face(s) of Science and "Govern-mentalized" Bodies of Knowledge
Elizabeth Effinger
8. Laboring With/In Disaster: Blake’s Workless Work in Jerusalem
David Collings
9. Nothing Lost: Blake and the New Materialism
Steven Goldsmith
10. Blake’s Decomposite Art: On the Image of Language and the Ruins of Representation
David L. Clark
11. Flea Trouble
Jacques Khalip
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Tilottama Rajan is a Canada Research Chair and distinguished university professor at Western University, the former Director of its Centre for Theory and Criticism, and the founder of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism.
Joel Faflak is professor of English and Theory at Western University, where he was also the Inaugural Director of the School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities.
Zusammenfassung
This is the first critical volume to examine William Blake as a visionary thinker on disaster and the advent of modernity.
