William Blake's Manuscripts

Praxis, Puzzles, and Palimpsests

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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With the introduction of facsimile editions and more particularly, the William Blake Archive, the largest digital repository of Blake materials online, scholars have been able to access Blake’s work in as close its original medium, leading to important insights into Blake’s creative process and mythopoetic system.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-04-13
Mått:148 x 210 x 22 mm
Vikt:521 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:378
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783031474385

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Mark Crosby FSA is Associate Professor of English at Kansas State University, USA. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters on William Blake and his patrons, Mark has co-authored, with Robert N. Essick, Genesis: William Blake's Last Illuminated Book (2012) and co-edited Re-envisioning Blake (2012). He is currently finishing a monograph on Blake and patronage.Josephine McQuail is Professor of English at Tennessee Tech University, USA. She has published in Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly; Modern Language Studies; The New Review of Children’s Literature; and has a piece coming out in The Blake Journal on Blake and the Foundling Hospital.

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Introduction: “What is Liberty without Universal Toleration”: the Recovery, Reconstruction, and Remediation of Blake’s Manuscripts.- 1: “Hang Philosophy”: Blake’s Metaphysical Forays in An Island in the Moon.- 2: From Reynolds to Wright of Derby: Visual References in Blake’s An Island in the Moon.- 3: “Blake and ‘the wondrous art of writing”: Letter Faces, Letter Formation, Capitalization.- 4: “On Every one of these Books I wrote my Opinions”: Re-assessing Blake’s Marginalia to Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Discourses.- 5: The Page Embodied: Laying Out The Four Zoas.- 6: Blake’s Vala, or, The Four Zoas, and the Antiquarians.- 7: Blake’s labyrinth of discordant paths: verbal/visual complexity in the two seventh Nights of The Four Zoas.- 8: Illuminating VALA: A Prolegomenon to a Digital Exhibition of Blake’s Manuscript.- 9: “All that we See is Vision”: William Blake’s Four Zoas Manuscript and Multispectral Imaging.- 10: "Go on Conquering”: A Re-threshing of Blake’s Letters.- 11: From Silken Fetters to Arrows of Desire: Behn, Blake, and the License of Pastoral.- 12: Illuminating Incompleteness: from Tiriel to Blake’s Final Imprint.- 13: The Book of Oothoon: Transtextuality, Transexuality, Palimpsests and Skin in Blake’s Manuscripts.- 14: "By the Voice of the Servant of the Lord": Blake's New Jerusalem and Swedenborgianism in the work of Sheila Kaye-Smith.