William Blake in the 21st century: poetry, prophecy, the history of imagination, and the futures of Romanticism

Negotiating the ‘Holy Land’: Cross-Cultural Encounters from Bonaparte to Blake

P Otto

2020-07-02

© 2020 The Institute of Postcolonial Studies. Napoleon's invasion of Egypt, launched in 1798, is closely linked to the birth of mo..

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

Peter Otto

2019-01-01

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..

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

Peter Otto

2019-01-01

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

2019-01-01

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

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

Peter Otto

2019-01-01

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

Introduction

P Otto

2018-12-25

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

2018-08-16

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

Peter Otto

2018-01-01

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

Artificial Environments, Virtual Realities, and the Cultivation of Propensity in the London Colosseum

P Otto

2016-01-18

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

Peter Otto

2015-05-04

This paper compares Emanuel Swedenborg's account of how bodies ought to be organized with the radical revision of his thought deve..

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

P OTTO

2015-01-01

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

2015-01-01

"‘A Balloon Prospect from above the Clouds’. Publish’d May 1st. 1786, by T. Baldwin"

P OTTO, A Nedeau-Owen

2013-10-01

Ballooning made possible new prospects from which to view scenes: new means of encountering the infinite from a finite perspective..

‘A View from the Balloon at its Greatest Elevation’

P OTTO, A Nedeau-Owen

2013-10-01

Such aerial views allowed viewers to consider color over outline, as shapes threaten to become amorphous. Such amorphousness highl..

"Kenilworth"

P OTTO, A Nedeau-Owen

2013-10-01

Much like the Duke in Browning's "My Last Duchess" who unveils the portrait of his murdered wife, the owner of this fore-edge pain..

‘Key to the Eidophusikon or Moving Diorama of Venice’

P OTTO, A Nedeau-Owen

2013-10-01

How does one enliven an engraved surface into a moving picture or simulation? In this fold-out plate, viewers are prepared to enco..

"'Port Dick, near Cook’s Inlet’, by Henry Humphrys"

P OTTO, A Nedeau-Owen

2013-10-01

In this scene, the Alutiiq Indians are dwarfed by the landscape and sky. Not only are they subjected to the surveillance/discovery..

'Rome & its Environs, from a Trigonometrical Survey’

P OTTO, A Nedeau-Owen

2013-10-01

At the nexus between topography and illustration, "Rome and its Environs" allows us to consider the shifting boundaries between th..

‘The Balloon Over Helsbye Hill in Cheshire’

P OTTO, A Nedeau-Owen

2013-10-01

Writing in Airopaidia: Containing the Narrative of a Balloon Excursion (1786), Thomas Baldwin describes this view as "taken in a h..

"'The Moving Panorama—or Spring Garden Rout"

P OTTO, A Nedeau-Owen

2013-10-01

Anticipating the tweet, the speech bubbles advertise the Marshalls' moving panorama as the best of their kind. One man queries: "D..

"'View from the house at Tatton', by Humphry Repton"

P OTTO, N Nedeau-Owen

2013-10-01

Landscape improver Humphry Repton imposes an aristocratic point of view upon the landscape, improving it by making its property bo..

''Views of Parts of the Coast of North West America'

P Otto, A Nedeau-Owen

2013-10-01

Immersing viewers in the art and pleasures of exploration, this series of coastal views situates viewers in a multi-perspectival w..