William Blake: Modernity and Disaster explores the work of the
Romantic writer, artist, and visionary William Blake as a
profoundly creative response to cultural, scientific, and political
revolution. In the wake of such anxieties of discovery, including
the revolution in the life sciences, Blake's imagination - often
prophetic, apocalyptic, and deconstructive - offers an inside view
of such tumultuous and catastrophic change. A hybrid of text and
image, Blake's writings and illuminations offer a disturbing and
productive exception to accepted aesthetic, social, and political
norms. Accordingly, the essays in this volume, reflecting Blake's
unorthodox perspective, challenge past and present critical
approaches in order to explore his oeuvre from multiple
perspectives: literary studies, critical theory, intellectual
history, science, art history, philosophy, visual culture, and
psychoanalysis. Covering the full range of Blake's output from the
shorter prophecies to his final poems, the essays in William Blake:
Modernity and Disaster predict the discontents of modernity by
reading Blake as a prophetic figure alert to the ends of history.
His legacy thus provides a lesson in thinking and living through
the present in order to ask what it might mean to envision a
different future, or any future at all.
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