William Blake modernity and disaster / edited by Tilottama Rajan and Joel Faflak.
| Other author | Rajan, Tilottama. |
| Other author | Faflak, Joel. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2020] |
| Description | xii, 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : some color illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Machine generated contents note: 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. Labouring with/in Disaster: Blake's Workless Work in Jerusalem / David Collings -- 9. Nothing Lost: Blake and the New Materialism / Steven Goldsmith -- Coda -- 10. Blake's Decomposite Art: On the Image of Language and the Ruins of Representation / David L. Clark -- 11. Flea Trouble / Jacques Khalip. |
| Abstract | "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."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-314) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Other forms | Issued also in electronic formats. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020446745 |
| ISBN | 9781487506568 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1487506562 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |