Buch, Englisch, 468 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 866 g
Reihe: Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture
Buch, Englisch, 468 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 866 g
Reihe: Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture
ISBN: 978-1-138-96480-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
A groundbreaking, international collection This anthology of original essays charts new territory in mapping the work of William Blake, combining traditional and current historicist methods with a plurality of other approaches. The first new volume on Blake in the U.S. in over 10 years, it features up-to-date scholarship by major Blake scholars plus ground-breaking work from newcomers. The volume's international scope and the fact that it contains more work by women than previous collections makes it unique. Blake as the oracle of new historical criticism This work represents an ongoing effort to restore politics and history to the center of Blake studies, which is particularly important in North America where Blake has been conscripted as the oracle of a new wave of historical criticism. Unlike other anthologies this volume offers a dual heritage of Blake interpretation: it brings the historical-political tradition long popular in British Blake studies into dialog with North American scholarship. While many essays here recuperate a radical Blake opposed to imperialism, slavery, and patriarchy, differences emerge over the nature of Blake's radicalism and his stance on revolution, violence, and democratic pluralism. Contributors may champion a Blake critical of patriarchal discourse and practice, but they remain cautious about Blake's homocentric solutions. In the Blake and Women section, authors seek to reorient discussions by connecting Blake to historical issues concerning women, particularly domestic ideology and the idealized female of the conduct books. Blake as a revolutionary artist Situating itself within a resurgent historicism, this bold anthology moves away from the apolitical Blake of mentalist and deconstructionalist criticism toward the revolutionary artist celebrated in Peter Ackroyd's biography and Jim Jarmusch's film Dead Man. In doing so, it appeals to a wide-ranging audience: not only Blake scholars, inside and out of the academy, but Romanticists, art and literary historians, and contemporary theorists working on feminism, new historicism, cultural studies, and post-colonial and reader response theory.
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General Editor's Preface, Introduction, Jackie DiSalvo; Part 1 Blake and the Question of Revolution; Chapter 1 The Myth of Blake's Orc Cycle, Chapter 2 Blake's Bible of Hell: Prophecy as Political Program, Chapter 3 The Anxiety of Production: Blake's Shift from Collective Hope to Writing Self, Chapter 4 William Blake's Figurai Politics, Part 101 Blake and the Underground; Chapter 5 The Doom of Tyrants: William Blake, Richard Citizen Lee, and the Millenarian Public Sphere, Chapter 6 Blake's Tiriel and the Regency Crisis: Lifting the Veil on a Royal Masonic Scandal, Chapter 7 Laboring Into Futurity: A Response, Part 2 Art and Politics; Chapter 8 Lovers of Wild Rebellion: The Image of Satan in British Art of the Revolutionary Era, Chapter 9 The Mob and Mrs Q: William Blake, William Benbow, and the Context of Regency Radicalism, Part 102 The French Revolution, 'America and Europe'; Chapter 10 Politics and Desire in Blake's The French Revolution, Chapter 11 The Lion & Wolf shall cease: Blake's America as a Critique of Counter-Revolutionary Violence, Chapter 12 The Finite Revolutions of Europe, Chapter 13 Re-Framing the Moment of Creation: Blake's Re-Visions of the Frontispiece and Title Page to Europe, Part 3 Blake, Empire and Slavery; Chapter 14 Empire of the Sea: Blake's King Edward the Third and English Imperial Poetry, Chapter 15 Revolted Negroes and the Devilish Principle: William Blake and Conflicting Visions of Boni's Wars in Surinam, 1772-1796, Part 103 Blake and Women; Chapter 16 Albion and the Sexual Machine: Blake, Gender and Politics, 1780-1795, Chapter 17 Transfigured Maternity in Blake's Songs of Innocence: Inverting the Maternity Plot in A Dream, Chapter 18 Maenads, Young Ladies, and the Lovely Daughters of Albion, Chapter 19 Blake, Gender and Imperial Ideology: A Response…/part contents.
