nineteenth-century literature
Blake 2.0 William Blake in Twentieth-Century Art, Music and Culture Edited by Steve Clark, Visiting Professor, University of Tokyo, Japan, Tristanne Connolly, Associate Professor of English, St. Jerome’s University, Canada and Jason Whittaker, Professor of Blake Studies; Head of Department, University College Falmouth, UK
‘A ground-breaking series of essays .’ - Professor Edward Larrissy, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
Contents: List of Illustrations / Notes on Contributors / Acknowledgements / List of Abbreviations / Introduction; J.Whittaker, S.Clark & T.Connolly / PART I: BLAKEAN CIRCULATIONS / Mirrored Text / Infinite Planes: Reception Aesthetics in Blake’s Milton; M.Lussier / ‘Rouze up, O Young Men of the New Age!’: William Blake, Theodore Roszak, and the Counter Culture of the 1960s-70s; P.Otto / Digital Blake 2.0; R.Whitson / ‘Rob & Plunder... Translate & Copy & Buy & Sell & Criticise, but not Make’: Blake and Copyright Today; S.Dent / ‘New matter’: Mona Wilson’s The Life of William Blake 85 Years On; A.Whitehead / PART II: BLAKE AND VISUAL ART / Celebration and Censure: William Blake and Stories of Masterliness in the British Art World, 1930-1959; C.Trodd / Blake and Surrealism; M.Sung / ‘The Sculptor Silent Stands before His Forming Image’: Blake and Contemporary Sculpture; M.Crosby / ‘Mental Joy & Mental Health / And Mental Friends & Mental Wealth’: Blake and Art Therapy; P.Simpson / PART III: BLAKE IN FILM AND GRAPHIC ARTS / ‘And did those feet?’: Blake and the Role of the Artist in Post-War Britain; S.Matthews / Film in a Time of Crisis: Blake, Dead Man, The New Math(s), and Last Days; M.Douglas / ‘The end of the world. That’s a bad thing right?’: Form and Function from William Blake to Alan Moore; M.J.A.Green / PART V: BLAKE IN MUSIC / Blake Set to Music; K.Davies / ‘Only the wings on his heels’: Blake and Dylan; S.Clark & J.Keery / ‘He Took a Face from the Ancient Gallery’: Blake and Jim Morrison; T.Connolly / ‘Hear the Drunken Archangel Sing’: Blakean Notes in 1990s Pop Music; D.Fallon / ‘Mental Fight’, ‘Corporeal War’, and Righteous Dub: The Struggle for ‘Jerusalem’, 1979-2009; J.Whittaker / Works Cited / Index January 2012 Hardback
328pp £55.00
Dorothy Wordsworth and Hartley Coleridge
Shelley and Vitality Sharon Ruston, Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, University of Salford, UK
The Poetics of Relationship Nicola Healey, Independent Scholar
'In this very fine book, Nicola Healey raises and resolves a number of issues that will be of great interest to students of Hartley Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth, and to Romantic scholars more generally...this book builds beautifully on the work of other scholars, and many ideas are handled genially and skilfully.’ - Andrew Keanie, Lecturer in English, University of Ulster, UK This book provides a reassessment of the writings of Hartley Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth and presents them in a new poetics of relationship, re-evaluating their relationships with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge to restore a more accurate understanding of Hartley and Dorothy as independent and original writers. Contents: Acknowledgements / Abbreviations / Author’s Note / Introduction: Hartley Coleridge, Dorothy Wordsworth, and the Poetics of Relationship / ‘Fragments from the universal’: Hartley Coleridge’s Poetics of Relationship / The Coleridge Family: Influence, Identity, and Representation / ‘Who is the Poet?’: Hartley Coleridge, William Wordsworth, and ‘The Use of a Poet’ / Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journals: Writing the Self, Writing Relationship / Sibling Conversations: The Wordsworthian Construction of Authorship / ‘My hidden life’: Dorothy, William, and Poetic Identity / Postscript: ‘The common life which is the real life’: Family Authorship and Identity / Bibliography / Index April 2012 Hardback
288pp £50.00
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'A fascinating and accomplished study, throwing new light on Shelley and the Vitality debate of which he was part.' - Professor Tim Fulford, Department of English and Media Studies, Nottingham Trent University, UK '[A]n interesting and suggestive study which should continue to galvanize our sense of the range, relevance, and maturity of Shelley's work.' Cian Duffy, Modern Language Review Shelley and Vitality, now in paperback, reassesses Shelley's engagement with early nineteenthcentury science and medicine, specifically his knowledge and use of theories on the nature of life, offering new biographical information to link Shelley to a medical circle and exploring the ways in which he exploits the language and ideas of vitality. Contents: Author Preface / Preface to the Paperback Edition / Acknowledgements / List of Abbreviations Cited / Introduction: A New Dawn / What is Life? / The Vitality Debate / Materialism and Atheism / PART I: THE VITALITY DEBATE, 1814-19 / Vitality and Radical Scientists / Humphry Davy and Romantic Scientist / Abernethy and Lawrence / After 1819 / PART II: SHELLEY'S KNOWLEDGE OF THE 'SCIENCE OF LIFE' / 1811 / Shelley and Bart's / Lawrence and the Bracknell Circle / Shelley's Notes on Davy / PART III: THE POLITICAL BODY: PROMETHEUS UNBOUND / The Furies and Animal Life / Electricity as Life / Earth as a Living Being / Utopian New Life / PART IV: 'THE PAINTED VEIL': DEFINING LIFE / Sensibility and the Figure of the Poet / Mutability / The Painted Veil / Materialism / PART V: 'THE POETRY OF LIFE' / Life Cycles / Vitally Metaphorical / Posthumous Life / Beginnings and Endings / Conclusion / Notes / Bibliography / Index July 2012 Paperback
240pp £18.99
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