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Book SynopsisThis is the first critical volume to examine William Blake as a visionary thinker on disaster and the advent of modernity.
Trade Review"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 *
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"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 *
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Table of ContentsList 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
