Blake in Our Time

Karen Mulhallen is a professor in the Departments of English at Ryerson University and the University of Toronto and a professor in the Joint Graduate Program in Culture and Communications at Ryerson and York Universities.

‘Blake in Our Time is a magnificent tribute to G. E. Bentley, Jr.-one of the titans in Blake studies of the last, as well as current, century-whose work has “shifted the focus of Blake criticism from formalism and symbolism to the ‘Minute Particulars’ of Blake’s life and work,”’ - Joseph Wittreich (Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly vol 46:03:2012-13)

• Introduction: Blake in Our Time - Minute Particulars by Karen Mulhallen (University of Toronto/Ryerson University/York University)PART 1: "Every Minute Particular is Holy": Materials Collecting Blake by Robert N. Essick (University of California, Riverside) Two Fake Blakes Revisited; One Dew-Smith Revealed by Joseph Viscomi (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Blake's Painting Materials, Technical Art History, and the Legacy of G.E. Bentley Jr by Joyce H. Townsend and Bronwyn A. Ormsby (Tate Gallery, London) PART 2: "For Friendship's Sake": Friends and Patrons New Light on the Mathews: Flaxman and Blake's Early Gothicism by David Bindman (University College London) "A Ladys Book": Blake's Engravings for Hayley's The Triumphs of Temper by Mark Crosby (Queen's University, Belfast) More on Blake's (and Bentley's) 'White Collar Maecenus': Thomas Butts, His Wife's Family of Artisans, and the Methodist Withams of St Bartholomew the Great by Mary Lynn Johnson (University of Iowa) "Went to see Blake - also to Surgeons college": Blake and George Cumberland's Pocketbooks by Angus Whitehead (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) George Richmond, Blake's True Heir? by Martin Butlin (Tate Gallery, London PART 3: "What I Both See and Hear": Architecture and Industry William Blake and Chichester by Morton D. Paley (University of California, Berkeley) William Blake and the Straw Paper Manufactory at Millbank by Keri Davies (The Blake Society) Epilogue: A Memorable Fancy by Jerome McGann (University of Virginia) Appendix: William Blake in Toronto: The Bentley Collection at Victoria University Library by Robert Brandeis (Victoria University in the University of Toronto)