William Blake's Manuscripts Praxis, Puzzles, and Palimpsests
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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