Blake in the Nineties

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Steve Clark, David Worrall

   Pages 1-6

3. Blake and the Production of Meaning

   • Robert N. Essick

   Pages 7-26

4. In the Caves of Heaven and Hell: Swedenborg and Printmaking in Blake’s Marriage

   • Joseph Viscomi

   Pages 27-60

5. Spectral Imposition and Visionary Imposition: Printing and Repetition in Blake

   • Edward Larrissy

   Pages 61-77

6. ‘Something in My Eye’: Irritants in Blake’s Illuminated Texts

   • Stephen C. Behrendt

   Pages 78-95

7. What has Songs to do with Hymns?

   • Nelson Hilton

   Pages 96-113

8. Calling into Existence: The Book of Urizen

   • Angela Esterhammer

   Pages 114-132

9. ‘Labouring at the Resolute Anvil’: Blake’s Response to Locke

   • Steve Clark

   Pages 133-152

10. Blake and the Two Swords

    • Michael Ferber

    Pages 153-172

11. Blake and the Grand Masters (1791–4): Architects of Repression or Revolution?

    • Marsha Keith Schuchard

    Pages 173-193

12. Blake and 1790s Plebeian Radical Culture

    • David Worrall

    Pages 194-211

13. Mrs Bliss: a Blake Collector of 1794

    • Keri Davies

    Pages 212-230

14. Back Matter

    Pages 231-240

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The 1990s have witnessed a major reassessment of Blake initiated by a new and more rigorous comprehension of his modes of production, which in turn has led to re-evaluation of other literary and cultural contexts for his work. Blake in the Nineties grapples with the implications of the new bibliography for Blake studies, in its editorial, interpretative, and historical dimensions. As well as providing an international overview of recent Blake criticism, the collection contributes to current debates in a variety of disciplines dealing with the Romantic period, including art history, counter-Enlightenment-scholarship, theology and hermeneutic theory.

• Age of Enlightenment
• architects
• art
• bibliography
• culture
• enlightenment
• history
• history of literature
• interpret
• John Locke
• revolution
• Romanticism
• theology
• William Blake

• University of London, UK

  Steve Clark

• St Mary’s University College, Strawberry Hill, UK

  David Worrall

STEPHEN BEHRENDT George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English, University of Nebraska-Lincoln KERI DAVIES Doctoral student, St. Mary's University College ROBERT N. ESSICK Professor of English, University of California, Riverside ANGELA ESTERHAMMER Teacher, University of Western Ontario MICHAEL FERBER Teacher, University of New Hampshire NELSON HILTON Professor of English, University of Athens, Georgia EDWARD LARRISSY Professor of English, University of Keele MARSHA KEITH SCHUCHARD Independent scholar, Atlanta, Georgia JOSEPH VISCOMI Teacher, University of North Carolina

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