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HISTORICIZING BLAKE Also by Steve Clark PAUL RICOEUR Also by David Worrall RESISTANCE AND SURVEILLANCE, 1790-1820 Historicizing Blake Edited by Steve Clark University of Northampton and David Worrall StMary's College of Higher Education Twickenham pal grave macmillan Text© The Macmillan Press Ltd 1994 Editorial matter and selection© Steve Clark and David Worrall1994 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1994 978-0-333-56819-4 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London WlP 9HE. 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MARTIN'S PRESS, INC., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 ISBN 978-0-312-10393-4 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Historicizing Blake I edited by Steve Clark and David Worrall. p. em. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-312-10393-4 1. Blake, William, 1757-1827-Knowledge-History. 2. Blake, William, 1757-1827-Criticism and interpretation. 3. Literature and history-England-History-18th century. I. Clark, S. H. (Steven H.), 1957- . 11. Worrall, David. PR4148.H5H57 1994 821' .7-dc20 93--43706 CIP Contents List of Plates vii Notes on the Contributors viii Preface xi Abbreviations and References xii 1 Introduction Steve Clark and David Worrall 1 2 The Infidel as Prophet: William Reid and Blakean Radicalism lain McCalman 24 3 Is there an Antinomian in the House? William Blake and the After-Life of a Heresy JonMee 43 4 'Self-Imposition': Alchemy, and the Fate of the 'Bound' in later Blake Edward Larrissy 59 5 Blake and the 'Reasoning Historian' Andrew Lincoln 73 6 'Among the flocks of Tharmas': The Four Zoas and the Pastoral of Commerce Philip Cox 86 7 Blake, Democritus and the 'Fluxions of the Atom': Some Contexts for Materialist Critiques Mary Lynn Johnson 105 8 Innovative Reproduction: Painters and Engravers at the Royal Academy of Arts D.W. Dorrbecker 125 v vi Contents 9 The Sins of the Fathers: Patriarchal Criticism and The Book of The! Helen Bruder 147 10 Blake's Changing View of History: The Impact of the Book of Enoch John Beer 159 Blake Bibliography 179 Index 184 List of Plates 1. William Blake. A Watcher surrounded by four Daughters of Men. Pencil drawing, inscribed 'Book of ENOCH' (National Gallery of Art, Washington) 2. William Blake. A Watcher seducing one of the Daughters of Men. Pencil drawing, inscribed 'from the book of Enoch' (National Gallery of Art, Washington) 3. William Blake. Two phallic males decending to one of the Daugh ters of Men. Pencil drawing, inscribed 'From the Book of Enoch' (National Gallery of Art, Washington) 4. William Blake. A spectrous female rising above a recumbent form; a figure looking on, apparently in horror. Pencil drawing, inscribed 'B of Enoch' (National Gallery of Art, Washington) 5. William Blake. Two figures, perhaps before the throne of 'one whose countenance was as snow, and whose garment as a shin ing sun'. Pencil drawing, inscribed 'Book of Enoch' (National Gallery of Art, Washington) 6. William Blake. A tethered figure trying to rise; great stars. Pencil drawing, inscribed 'ENOCH' and 'Enoch'. (Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University) 7. William Blake. The temptation of Eve. Pen and watercolour illus tration to John Milton, Paradise Lost ix. 780-4 (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) 8. William Blake. Mirth and her Companions. Illustration to John Milton, L'Allegro. Line engraving (British Museum) vii Notes on the Contributors John Beer is the author of Blake's Humanism and Blake's Visionary Universe; he has also published books on Wordsworth, Coleridge and E.M. Forster, edited Coleridge's Aids to Reflection for the Collected Coleridge and written articles on a variety of authors and topics. His new book Romantic Influences is also published by Macmillan. Helen Bruder teaches English at Oxford Brookes University. She has recently completed a PhD thesis entitled 'Historicizing Blake in "A Land of Men and Women Too'" and has written reviews for several academic journals, including Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly. Steve Clark teaches at Osaka University and the University of Northampton. He is the author of Paul Ricoeur (1990) and Sordid Images: The Poetry of Masculine Desire {1994), has published on Blake and eighteenth-century philosophy, and has edited a selection from Akenside, Macpherson and Young. Philip Cox is a Lecturer in the School of Cultural Studies at Sheffield Hallam University. He is the author of articles on Blake and Emily Bronte and is currently working on two book-length projects: William Blake and the Politics of Pastoral and The Gendered Discourse of Romantic Pastoral. D. W. Dorrbecker teaches art history at the University of Trier, Ger many. For many years he was bibliographer for Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly, and he rediscovered five copies of Blake's illuminated books in Cologne, Munich and Vienna. His most recent publication on Blake's art is Konvention und Innovation {1992). He is currently co editing Volume IV in the William Blake Trust series of reproductions of 'Blake's Illuminated Books'. Mary Lynn Johnson, formerly on the faculty of the University of Illinois and Georgia State University, has been assistant to the presi dent of the University of Iowa since 1983. She is co-author of Blake's viii Notes on the Contributors ix 'Four Zoas': The Design of a Dream (1978), co-editor of the Norton Critical Edition, Blake's Poetry and Designs (1979), compiler of the Blake chapter in The English Romantic Poets: A Review of Research and Criticism (1985), and author of several articles on Blake and on other Romantic poets. Edward Larrissy is Senior Lecturer in English, Warwick University. He is the author of William Blake (1985), Reading Twentieth-Century Poetry (1990), and Yeats The Poet: The Measures of Difference (forth coming). He is currently preparing the Oxford Authors Yeats. Andrew Lincoln teaches in the English Department of Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. His edition of Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience was published by the William Blake Trust in conjunction with the Tate Gallery in 1991. Jon Mee is a Lecturer in the English Department of the Australian National University. His Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s was published in 1992. lain McCalman is Associate Director of the Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University. He has written Radical Underworld: Prophets, Revolutionaries and Pornographers in London, 1795-1840 (1988) and is the editor of Horrors of Slavery: The Life and Writings of Robert Wedderburn (1992). David Worrall teaches English at St Mary's College, Strawberry Hill. He is Associate Editor of Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly and the author of Radical Culture: Discourse, Resistance and Surveillance, 1790- 1820 (1992). He is co-editing Volume IV of the William Blake Trust facsimiles.
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