This is the first critical volume to examine William Blake as a visionary thinker on disaster and the advent of modernity.

Edited by Tilottama Rajan and Joel Faflak

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Acknowledgments

Introduction: From Prophecy to Disaster
Tilottama Rajan and Joel Faflak

1. Primitive Arts and Sciences and the Body of Knowledge in Blake’s Epics
Noah Heringman

2. System(s), Body, Corpus: The Autogenesis of Blake’s Lambeth Books
Tilottama Rajan

3. "Second Birth" and Gothic Fictions in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk, Catherine Blake’s "Agnes," and William Blake’s Vala or The Four Zoas
Peter Otto

4. Blake’s Milton and the Disaster of Psychoanalysis
Joel Faflak

5. Blake’s Blush: Wartime Shame in "London" and Jerusalem
Lily Gurton-Wachter

6. Blake’s Nervous System: Hypochondria, Judaism, and Jerusalem
Christopher Bundock

7. Forgiving Blake’s Disaster: The Changing Face(s) of Science and "Govern-mentalized" Bodies of Knowledge
Elizabeth Effinger

8. Laboring With/In Disaster: Blake’s Workless Work in Jerusalem
David Collings

9. Nothing Lost: Blake and the New Materialism
Steven Goldsmith

10. Blake’s Decomposite Art: On the Image of Language and the Ruins of Representation
David L. Clark

11. Flea Trouble
Jacques Khalip

Bibliography
Contributors
Index