Blake in Our Time
Subtitle: Essays in Honour of G.E. Bentley, Jr.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Published: Jun 30, 2010
Language: eng; fre
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781442641518
Description: "Blake in Our Time explores the work of British poet and artist William Blake in the context of the material culture of his era. In the 1960s, University of Toronto scholar G.E. Bentley, Jr almost singlehandedly shifted the focus of Blake criticism from formalism and symbolism to the materiality that contextualizes Blake's work.

Following in the footsteps of Bentley's pioneering scholarship, this collection, richly illustrated, demonstrates that the locus of Blake's work lies in the elements that are historically particular to his place and time. Topics include the impact of the town of Chichester on Blake's imagination, the material processes of Blake's painting, the detection of a Blake forgery, and new biographical materials, using archives and online resources, on Blake's contemporaries, patrons, peers, and friends. Essays on the importance of Blake collections world-wide, on variant printings, and on the heirs of Blake in British painting extend the focus of this remarkable investigation to include chalcography and book history."--pub. desc.
Notes: Source title: Blake in Our Time: Essays in Honour of G.E. Bentley, Jr.