William Blake's Manuscripts: Praxis, Puzzles, and Palimpsests

ISBN-13: 9783031474354 / Angielski

Mark Crosby; Josephine McQuail

Spis treści

Introduction: Mark Crosby and Josie McQuail - “What is Liberty without Universal Toleration”: the Recovery, Reconstruction, and Remediation of Blake’s Manuscripts

1. Joseph Fletcher - “Hang Philosophy”: Blake’s Metaphysical Forays in An Island in the Moon

2. Fernando Castanedo - From Reynolds to Wright of Derby: Visual References in Blake’s An Island in the Moon

3. G.E. Bentley Jnr, “Blake and ‘the wondrous art of writing”: Letter Faces, Letter Formation, Capitalization

4. Elizabeth Potter - “On Every one of these Books I wrote my Opinions”: Re-assessing Blake’s Marginalia to Sir Joshua Reynolds’s Discourses

5. Silvia Riccardi - The Page Embodied: Laying Out The Four Zoas

6. Josie McQuail - Blake’s Vala, or, The Four Zoas, and the Antiquarians

7. Peter Otto - Blake’s labyrinth of discordant paths: verbal/visual complexity in the two seventh Nights of The Four Zoas

8. Mike Fox - Illuminating VALA: A Prolegomenon to a Digital Exhibition of Blake’s Manuscript

9. Eric Loy, Helen Davies, Alexander Zawacki, and Christina Duffy - “All that we See is Vision”: William Blake’s Four Zoas Manuscript and Multispectral Imaging

10. Angus Whitehead -“Go on Conquering”: A Re-threshing of Blake’s Letters

11. Jennifer Michael Davis - From Silken Fetters to Arrows of Desire: Behn, Blake, and the License of Pastoral

12. Mark Crosby - Illuminating Incompleteness: from Tiriel to Blake’s Final Imprint

13. Tommy Mayberry - The Book of Oothoon: Transtextuality, Transexuality, Palimpsests and Skin in Blake’s Manuscripts

14. Jason Whittaker - "By the Voice of the Servant of the Lord": Blake's New Jerusalem and Swedenborgianism in the work of Sheila Kaye-Smith

O autorze

​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.

Blurb

This collection of essays examines how close analysis of William Blake’s manuscripts can yield new discoveries about his techniques, his working habits, and his influences. 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. Recent advancements in digital editing and reproduction has further increased interest in Blake’s manuscripts. This volume brings together both established Blake scholars, including G.E. Bentley Jnr’s final essay on Blake, and upcoming scholars whose research is at the intersection of digital humanities, critical theory, textual scholarship, queer theory, transgender studies, reception history, and bibliographical studies. The chapters seek to cover the breadth of Blake’s manuscripts: poetry, letters, notebook entries, and annotations. Together, these chapters offer an overview of the current state of research in Blake studies on manuscripts at a point when his manuscripts have become increasingly available in digital environments, and gesture to a possible future of Blake scholarship in general.