NICHOLAS M. WILLIAMS is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University, USA. He is the author of Ideology and Utopla in the Poetry of William Blake, as well as articles on Blake, William Godwin and Thomas Malthus.

'Blake beginners will appreciate the lucid tours of landmark criticism and mapping of major debates, while seasoned Blakeans will discover gems in both the painstaking reviews of scholarship and the individual perspectives of a range of well-selected scholars. The collection is uniquely forward-looking, as it does not stop at projecting future vectors of Blake studies, but goes beyond period and discipline to assert Blake's presence in politics, science, theory and literature from the nineteenth through the twenty-first-century.' - Tristanne J. Connolly, St. Jerome's University, Canada

• Chronology List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors A Note on the Text/List of Abbreviations Introduction: Understanding Blake; N.M.Williams PART ONE: TEXTUAL APPROACHES Blake's Production Methods; J.H.Jones Blake's Composite Art; P.Otto Blake and Language; A.Esterhammer Blake and the Play of Textuality; N.Hilton PART TWO: CULTURAL APPROACHES Blake and the Bible; S.Prickett & C.Strathman Blake and Gender Studies; H.Bruder Blake and Psychology; D.Punter Blake and Science Studies; M.Lussier Blake and the History of Radicalism; A.Lincoln Blake and the Communist Tradition; S.Makdisi Blake and Postmodernism; E.Larrissy Index

NICHOLAS M. WILLIAMS is Associate Professor of English at Indiana University, USA. He is the author of Ideology and Utopla in the Poetry of William Blake, as well as articles on Blake, William Godwin and Thomas Malthus.

'Blake beginners will appreciate the lucid tours of landmark criticism and mapping of major debates, while seasoned Blakeans will discover gems in both the painstaking reviews of scholarship and the individual perspectives of a range of well-selected scholars. The collection is uniquely forward-looking, as it does not stop at projecting future vectors of Blake studies, but goes beyond period and discipline to assert Blake's presence in politics, science, theory and literature from the nineteenth through the twenty-first-century.' - Tristanne J. Connolly, St. Jerome's University, Canada

• Chronology List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors A Note on the Text/List of Abbreviations Introduction: Understanding Blake; N.M.Williams PART ONE: TEXTUAL APPROACHES Blake's Production Methods; J.H.Jones Blake's Composite Art; P.Otto Blake and Language; A.Esterhammer Blake and the Play of Textuality; N.Hilton PART TWO: CULTURAL APPROACHES Blake and the Bible; S.Prickett & C.Strathman Blake and Gender Studies; H.Bruder Blake and Psychology; D.Punter Blake and Science Studies; M.Lussier Blake and the History of Radicalism; A.Lincoln Blake and the Communist Tradition; S.Makdisi Blake and Postmodernism; E.Larrissy Index