STEVE CLARK is Visiting Professor at the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo, Japan. Previous publications include Historicizing Blake (1994), Blake in the Nineties (1999) and Blake, Nation and Empire (2006), all co-edited with David Worrall, and The Reception of Blake in the Orient (2006) co-edited with Masashi Suzuki. JASON WHITTAKER is Senior Lecturer in English with Media Studies at University College Falmouth, Cornwall, UK. He is the author of William Blake and the Myths of Britain and, with Shirley Dent, Radical Bl

• Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Abbreviations Introduction: Blake, Modernity and Popular Culture; S.Clark & J.Whittaker Popular Millenarianism and Empire in Blake's Night Thoughts ; G.A.Rosso Blake in Theatreland: Fountain Court and its Environs; D.Worrall Emanations and Negations of Blake in Victorian Art Criticism; C.Trodd 'Esoteric Blakists' and the 'weak brethren': How Blake Lovers Kept the Popular Out; S.Dent Blake: Between Romanticism and Modernism; E.Larrissy 'There is no Competition': Eliot on Blake, Blake in Eliot; S.Clark Children of Albion: Blake and Contemporary British Poetry; J.Keery Queer Bedfellows: William Blake and Derek Jarman; M.Douglas 'This Angel, who is now a Devil, is my particular Friend': Diabolic Friendships and Oppositional Interrogation in Blake and Rushdie; M.Green Friendly Enemies: A Dialogical Encounter Between William Blake and Angela Carter; C.Ranger Blake Beyond Postmodernity; M.Lussier What Is It Like To Be a Blake? Psychiatry, Drugs and the Doors of Perception; W.Glausser The Silence of the Lamb and the Tyger: Harris and Blake, Good and Evil; M.Gompf From Hell: Blake and Evil in Popular Culture; J.Whittaker Fit Audience Tho Many: Pullman's Blake and the Anxiety of Popularity; S.Matthews Bibliography Index