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Blake, modernity and popular culture / edited by Steve Clark and Jason Whittaker.
Van Pelt Library PR4148.I52 B63 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blake, William, 1757-1827--Influence.
- Blake, William.
- Blake, William, 1757-1827--Appreciation.
- Blake, William, 1757-1827.
- Modernism (Literature).
- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.).
- Popular culture--History--20th century.
- Popular culture.
- History.
- Popular culture--History--19th century.
- Blake, William, 1757-1827--Knowledge and learning--Popular culture.
- Popular culture--Great Britain--History--18th century.
- Popular culture--Great Britain--History--19th century.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- x, 240 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Summary:
- Two and a half centuries after his birth Blake's influence on later generations of writers and artists is more important than ever, extending into film, psychology, children's literature and graphic novels as well as poetry, painting and fiction. This collection of essays brings together a range of new and established scholars to consider the ways in which Blake reacted to the subcultures of his day, as well as how he has inspired popular, modernist and postmodernist figures until the present. Blake, Modernity and Popular Culture considers the impact of Blake's art and poetry on individuals and genres as diverse as T. S. Eliot, Johnny Depp and Philip Pullman, Victorian art and the Hollywood blockbuster.
- Contents:
- 1 Popular Millenarianism and Empire in Blake's Night Thoughts / G. A. Rosso 12
- 2 Blake in Theatreland: Fountain Court and its Environs / David Worrall 26
- 3 Emanations and Negations of Blake in Victorian Art Criticism / Colin Trodd 39
- 4 'Esoteric Blakists' and the 'Weak Brethren': how Blake Lovers Kept the Popular out / Shirley Dent 57
- 5 Blake: Between Romanticism and Modernism / Edward Larrissy 69
- 6 'There is no Competition': Eliot on Blake, Blake in Eliot / Steve Clark 78
- 7 Children of Albion: Blake and Contemporary British Poetry / James Keery 100
- 8 Queer Bedfellows: William Blake and Derek Jarman / Mark Douglas 113
- 9 'This Angel, who is now become a Devil, is my particular Friend': Diabolic Friendships and Oppositional Interrogation in Blake and Rushdie / Matt Green 127
- 10 Friendly Enemies: A Dialogical Encounter between William Blake and Angela Carter / Christopher Ranger 140
- 11 Blake beyond Postmodernity / Mark Lussier 151
- 12 What is it Like to be a Blake? Psychiatry, Drugs and the Doors of Perception / Wayne Glausser 163
- 13 The Silence of the Lamb and the Tyger: Harris and Blake, Good and Evil / Michelle Gompf 179
- 14 From Hell: Blake and Evil in Popular Culture / Jason Whittaker 192
- 15 Fit Audience tho Many: Pullman's Blake and the Anxiety of Popularity / Susan Matthews 205.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-233) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230008441
- 0230008445
- OCLC:
- 76360873
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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