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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.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: From Prophecy to Disaster
Tilottama Rajan and Joel Faflak
1. Primitive Arts and Sciences and the Body of Knowledge in Blake's Epics
Noah Heringman
2. System(s), Body, Corpus: The Autogenesis of Blake's Lambeth Books
Tilottama Rajan
3. "Second Birth" and Gothic Fictions in Matthew Lewis's The Monk, Catherine Blake's "Agnes," and William Blake's Vala or The Four Zoas
Peter Otto
4. Blake's Milton and the Disaster of Psychoanalysis
Joel Faflak
5. Blake's Blush: Wartime Shame in "London" and Jerusalem
Lily Gurton-Wachter
6. Blake's Nervous System: Hypochondria, Judaism, and Jerusalem
Christopher Bundock
7. Forgiving Blake's Disaster: The Changing Face(s) of Science and "Govern-mentalized" Bodies of Knowledge
Elizabeth Effinger
8. Laboring With/In Disaster: Blake's Workless Work in Jerusalem
David Collings
9. Nothing Lost: Blake and the New Materialism
Steven Goldsmith
10. Blake's Decomposite Art: On the Image of Language and the Ruins of Representation
David L. Clark
11. Flea Trouble
Jacques Khalip
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
