William Blake Modernity and Disaster
This is the first critical volume to examine William Blake as a visionary thinker on disaster and the advent of modernity.
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| Abstract | This is the first critical volume to examine William Blake as a
visionary thinker on disaster and the advent of modernity. |
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| AbstractList | This is the first critical volume to examine William Blake as a visionary thinker on disaster and the advent of modernity. William Blake: Modernity and Disaster explores the work of the Romantic writer, artist, and visionary William Blake as a profoundly creative response to cultural, scientific, and political revolution. In the wake of such anxieties of discovery, including the revolution in the life sciences, Blake's imagination - often prophetic, apocalyptic, and deconstructive - offers an inside view of such tumultuous and catastrophic change. A hybrid of text and image, Blake's writings and illuminations offer a disturbing and productive exception to accepted aesthetic, social, and political norms. Accordingly, the essays in this volume, reflecting Blake's unorthodox perspective, challenge past and present critical approaches in order to explore his oeuvre from multiple perspectives: literary studies, critical theory, intellectual history, science, art history, philosophy, visual culture, and psychoanalysis. Covering the full range of Blake's output from the shorter prophecies to his final poems, the essays in William Blake: Modernity and Disaster predict the discontents of modernity by reading Blake as a prophetic figure alert to the ends of history. His legacy thus provides a lesson in thinking and living through the present in order to ask what it might mean to envision a different future, or any future at all. William Blake: Modernity and Disaster explores the work of the Romantic writer, artist, and visionary William Blake as a profoundly creative response to cultural, scientific, and political revolution. In the wake of such anxieties of discovery, including the revolution in the life sciences, Blake’s imagination – often prophetic, apocalyptic, and deconstructive – offers an inside view of such tumultuous and catastrophic change. A hybrid of text and image, Blake’s writings and illuminations offer a disturbing and productive exception to accepted aesthetic, social, and political norms. Accordingly, the essays in this volume, reflecting Blake’s unorthodox perspective, challenge past and present critical approaches in order to explore his oeuvre from multiple perspectives: literary studies, critical theory, intellectual history, science, art history, philosophy, visual culture, and psychoanalysis. Covering the full range of Blake’s output from the shorter prophecies to his final poems, the essays in William Blake: Modernity and Disaster predict the discontents of modernity by reading Blake as a prophetic figure alert to the ends of history. His legacy thus provides a lesson in thinking and living through the present in order to ask what it might mean to envision a different future, or any future at all. This is the first critical volume to examine William Blake as a visionary thinker on disaster and the advent of modernity. |
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visionary thinker on disaster and the advent of modernity. William Blake: Modernity and Disaster explores the work of the Romantic writer, artist, and visionary William Blake as a profoundly creative response to... This is the first critical volume to examine William Blake as a visionary thinker on disaster and the advent of modernity. |
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| SubjectTerms | Apocalypse in literature Blake, William, 1757–1827 Civilization, Modern, in literature Criticism and interpretation Disasters in literature Gothic & Romance Language & Literature LITERARY CRITICISM Poetry Prophecy in literature |
| Subtitle | Modernity and Disaster |
| TableOfContents | Front Matter
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction:
Chapter One: Primitive Arts and Sciences and the Body of Knowledge in Blake’s Epics
Chapter Two: System(s), Body, Corpus:
Chapter Three: “Second Birth” and Gothic Fictions in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk, Catherine Blake’s “Agnes,” and William Blake’s Vala, or The Four Zoas
Chapter Four: Blake’s Milton and the Disaster of Psychoanalysis
Chapter Five: Blake’s Blush:
Chapter Six: Blake’s Nervous System:
Chapter Seven: Forgiving Blake’s Disaster:
Chapter Eight: Labouring with/in Disaster:
Chapter Nine: Nothing Lost:
Colour plates
Chapter Ten: Blake’s Decomposite Art:
Chapter Eleven: Flea Trouble
Bibliography
Contributors
Index Cover Half Title Page, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: From Prophecy to Disaster 1 Primitive Arts and Sciences and the Body of Knowledge in Blake's Epics 2 System(s), Body, Corpus: The Autogenesis of Blake's Lambeth Books 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 4 Blake's Milton and the Disaster of Psychoanalysis 5 Blake's Blush: Wartime Shame in London and Jerusalem 6 Blake's Nervous System: Hypochondria, Judaism, and Jerusalem 7 Forgiving Blake's Disaster: The Changing Face(s) of Science and Govern-mentalized Bodies of Knowledge 8 Labouring with/in Disaster: Blake's Workless Work in Jerusalem 9 Nothing Lost: Blake and the New Materialism Coda 10 Blake's Decomposite Art: On the Image of Language and the Ruins of Representation 11 Flea Trouble Bibliography Contributors Index Image Plates Half Title Page Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: From Prophecy to Disaster -- 1 Primitive Arts and Sciences and the Body of Knowledge in Blake's Epics -- 2 System(s), Body, Corpus: The Autogenesis of Blake's Lambeth Books -- 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 -- 4 Blake's Milton and the Disaster of Psychoanalysis -- 5 Blake's Blush: Wartime Shame in "London" and Jerusalem -- 6 Blake's Nervous System: Hypochondria, Judaism, and Jerusalem -- 7 Forgiving Blake's Disaster: The Changing Face(s) of Science and "Govern-mentalized" Bodies of Knowledge -- 8 Labouring with/in Disaster: Blake's Workless Work in Jerusalem -- 9 Nothing Lost: Blake and the New Materialism -- Coda -- 10 Blake's Decomposite Art: On the Image of Language and the Ruins of Representation -- 11 Flea Trouble -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- Colour plates follow page 230 |
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