William Blake

Modernity and Disaster

AvTilottama Rajan,Joel Faflak

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Engelska, 2021

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-01-07
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:352
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781487534431
Förlag:University of Toronto Press

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Tilottama Rajan is a Canada Research Chair and distinguished university professor at Western University, the former Director of its Centre for Theory and Criticism, and the founder of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism.Joel Faflak is professor of English and Theory at Western University, where he was also the Inaugural Director of the School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities.

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"A number of the essays resituate Blake among the contemporary life sciences, resulting in thought-provoking ways to rethink his texts." - D. D. Schierenbeck, Immanuel Lutheran College (CHOICE) "It is a book by specialists, for specialists, offering unique and fresh insight into the ways that Blake’s work resonates through a broad variety of ideas, theoretical concepts, and comparative illuminations."- Jon Saklofske, Acadia University (European Romantic Review)

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List of Illustrations AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: From Prophecy to Disaster Tilottama Rajan and Joel Faflak1. Primitive Arts and Sciences and the Body of Knowledge in Blake’s EpicsNoah Heringman2. System(s), Body, Corpus: The Autogenesis of Blake’s Lambeth BooksTilottama Rajan3. "Second Birth" and Gothic Fictions in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk, Catherine Blake’s "Agnes," and William Blake’s Vala or The Four ZoasPeter Otto4. Blake’s Milton and the Disaster of PsychoanalysisJoel Faflak5. Blake’s Blush: Wartime Shame in "London" and JerusalemLily Gurton-Wachter6. Blake’s Nervous System: Hypochondria, Judaism, and JerusalemChristopher Bundock7. Forgiving Blake’s Disaster: The Changing Face(s) of Science and "Govern-mentalized" Bodies of KnowledgeElizabeth Effinger8. Laboring With/In Disaster: Blake’s Workless Work in JerusalemDavid Collings9. Nothing Lost: Blake and the New MaterialismSteven Goldsmith10. Blake’s Decomposite Art: On the Image of Language and the Ruins of RepresentationDavid L. Clark11. Flea TroubleJacques KhalipBibliography Contributors Index