Reception of Blake in the Orient

Steve Clark is Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo. Masashi Suzuki is Professor in the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, Kyoto University and is President of the Japan Association of English Romanticism

"'This welcome collection of essays has multiple aims. Its introduction sets it squarely amid recent attempts not just to look at origins and contexts of Blake's output but also at the way it has been received and deployed in later times and places. Here those times and places are extremely diverse.' '...the essays on display here are varied and impressive...' Jon Mee, University of Warwick, for Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net"

• List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction, Steve Clark (University of Tokyo) and Masashi Suzuki (Kyoto University); Part I: The Orient in Blake: The Global Eighteenth Century; 2 Thel in Africa: William Blake and the Post-colonial, Post-Swedenborgian Female Subject, David Worrall (Nottingham Trent University); 3 'Typhon, the lower nature': Blake and Egypt as the Orient, Kazuya Okada (Okayama University); 4 Rebekah Bliss: Collector of William Blake and Oriental Books, Keri Davies (The Blake Society); 5 Blake and the Chinamen, Mei-Ying Sung (Nottingham Trent University); 6 Colour Printing in the West and East: William Blake and Ukiyo-e, Minne Tanaka; 7 Representing Race: The Meaning of Colour and Line in William Blake's 1790s Bodies, Sibylle Erle (Bishop Grosseteste University); 8 Africa and Utopia: Refusing a 'local habitation', Susan Matthews (University of Roehampton); 9 An Empire of Exotic Nature: Blake's Botanical and Zoomorphic Imagery, Ashton Nichols (Dickinson College); 10 Blake, Hayley and India: On Designs to a Series of Ballads (1802), Hikari Sato (Kobe University); 11 The Authority of the Ancients: Blake and Wilkins' translation of the Bhagvat-Gita, Tristanne J. Connolly (St. Jerome's University, Waterloo); Part II: Blake in the Orient: Early-Twentieth-Century Japanese Reception; 12 Blake's Oriental Heterodoxy: Yangi's Perception of Blake, Ayako Wada (Tottori University); 13 Self-Annihilation in Milton, Hatsuko Nimii (Japan Women's University); 14 An Ideological Map of (Mis)reading: William Blake and Yanagi Muneyoshi in Early Twentieth-century Japan, Kazuyoshi Oishi (University of the Air); 15 The Female Voice in Blake Studies in Japan, 1910s-1930s, Yoko Ima-Izumi (University of Tsukuba); 16 Blake as Inspiration to Yanagi and Jugaku, Shinsuke Tsurumi; 17 Individuality and Expression: The Shirakaba Group and the Early Reception of Blake's Visual Art Works in Japan, Yumiko Goto (Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art); Part III: Blake in the Orient: Later Responses; 18 Blake's Night: Tanizaki's Shadows, Jeremy Tambling; 19 Oe Kenzaburo's Reading of Blake: An Anglophone Perspective, Barnard Turner (National University of Singapore); 20 Nebuchadnezzar's Sublime Torments: William Blake, Arthur Boyd and the East, Peter Otto (University of Melbourne). 21 William Blake in Taiwan, Ching-erh Chang (National Taiwan University); 22 'Walking thro' Eternity': Blake's Psychogeography and other Pedestrian Practices, Jason Whittaker (University College Falmouth); 23 Blake's Question (from the Orient), John Phillips (National University of Singapore); Bibliography; Index.