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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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors Faflak, Joel, Rajan, Tilottama
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Toronto University of Toronto Press 2020
Edition1
Subjects
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
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Table of Contents:
  • 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