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William Blake, the Secularization of Religious Categories, and the History of Imagination

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Architectures Of Imagination: Bodies, Buildings, Fictions, And Worlds

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The ends of illustration: explanation, critique, and the political imagination in Blake's ..

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William Blake In The 21st Century: Poetry, Prophecy, The History Of Imagination, And The F..

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William Blake, the ancient Gnostics, and the birth of modern Gnosticism

Book Chapter

Gothic Fiction And Imagined Worlds: Popular Literature, Emotion, And The Transformation Of..

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“Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!”: Ōe Kenzaburō and William Blake on Bodies, Biopolit..

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Displaying the 4 most recent projects by Peter Otto.

Architectures Of Imagination: Bodies, Buildings, Fictions, And Worlds

This project aims to offer an account of the roles played by fiction and imagination in the production of space during the long 18th century..

2018 - 2021

Active

William Blake In The 21st Century: Poetry, Prophecy, The History Of Imagination, And The Futures Of Romanticism

William Blake, one of the most important Romantic artists, provides an exemplary instance of the creative and iconoclastic. By recovering Bl..

2012 - 2017

Completed

Gothic Fiction And Imagined Worlds: Popular Literature, Emotion, And The Transformation Of Experience In Modernity

This project revises our understanding of Gothic Fiction, the most important prose genre of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuri..

2008 - 2012

Completed

Multiplying Worlds: Romanticism, Modernity, & The Emergence Of Virtual Reality

This project contends that virtual reality first emerges during the Romantic Period (1780-1830). Further, it argues that the contemporary pr..

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Scholarly Works

Displaying the 68 most recent scholarly works by Peter Otto.

William Blake, the Secularization of Religious Categories, and the History of Imagination

Peter Otto

Book Chapter | 2019

This chapter takes as its starting point the discovery, by Kerri Davies and Marsha Keith Schuchard, that Blake’s mother (Catherine..

The ends of illustration: explanation, critique, and the political imagination in Blake's title-pages for Genesis

Peter Otto

Book Chapter | 2019

In the last year of his life, Blake was commissioned by John Linnell (1792-1882) to produce an illustrated copy of Genesis, the Bi..

William Blake, the ancient Gnostics, and the birth of modern Gnosticism

Peter Otto

Book Chapter | 2019

On the 10th December 1825, after dining at the house of the painter and socialite Eliza Aders and her husband Charles, in the comp..

“Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age!”: Ōe Kenzaburō and William Blake on Bodies, Biopolitics, and the Imagination

Peter Otto

Book Chapter | 2019

Kenzaburo Oe’s ‘Rouse up O Young Men of the New Age!’ describes the narrator’s engagement with the poetry of Blake and growing rel..

Introduction

P Otto

Book Chapter | 2018

This introduction focuses on Blake's reception, the current state of Blake criticism, the history of remediating Blake, Blake's co..

William Blake Selected Works

Peter Otto

Book | 2018

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students and readers a comprehensive selection of the work of William..

The horrors of creation: globes, englobing powers, and Blake's archaeologies of the present

P Otto

Book Chapter | 2018

By the mid 1790s William Blake (1757-1827) had concluded that the regenerated France foreshadowed by the fall of the Bastille (Jul..

Reading William Blake

Peter Otto

Journal article | 2017 | Romanticism

Artificial environments, virtual realities, and the cultivation of propensity in the London colosseum

P Otto

Book Chapter | 2016

Organizing the Passions: Minds, Bodies, Machines, and the Sexes in Blake and Swedenborg

Peter Otto

Journal article | 2015 | European Romantic Review

Disoriented, Twice Removed from the Real, Racked by Passion in Walpole's Protean Theatres of Sensation

Peter Otto

Journal article | 2015 | Eighteenth-Century Fiction

From the English to the French Revolution: The Body, the World and Experience in Locke's 'Essay,' Bentley's 'A Prospect of Vapourland' and Blake's 'Songs'

P OTTO

Book Chapter | 2015

"Where am I, and what?" - Architecture, Environment, and the Transformation of Experience in Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho

Peter Otto

Journal article | 2014 | European Romantic Review