William Blake

Tilottama Rajan is a Canada Research Chair and distinguished university professor at Western University, the former Director of its Centre for Theory and Criticism, and the founder of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism.Joel Faflak is professor of English and Theory at Western University, where he was also the Inaugural Director of the School for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Humanities.

• List of Illustrations AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: From Prophecy to Disaster Tilottama Rajan and Joel Faflak1. Primitive Arts and Sciences and the Body of Knowledge in Blake’s EpicsNoah Heringman2. System(s), Body, Corpus: The Autogenesis of Blake’s Lambeth BooksTilottama Rajan3. "Second Birth" and Gothic Fictions in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk, Catherine Blake’s "Agnes," and William Blake’s Vala or The Four ZoasPeter Otto4. Blake’s Milton and the Disaster of PsychoanalysisJoel Faflak5. Blake’s Blush: Wartime Shame in "London" and JerusalemLily Gurton-Wachter6. Blake’s Nervous System: Hypochondria, Judaism, and JerusalemChristopher Bundock7. Forgiving Blake’s Disaster: The Changing Face(s) of Science and "Govern-mentalized" Bodies of KnowledgeElizabeth Effinger8. Laboring With/In Disaster: Blake’s Workless Work in JerusalemDavid Collings9. Nothing Lost: Blake and the New MaterialismSteven Goldsmith10. Blake’s Decomposite Art: On the Image of Language and the Ruins of RepresentationDavid L. Clark11. Flea TroubleJacques KhalipBibliography Contributors Index

"A number of the essays resituate Blake among the contemporary life sciences, resulting in thought-provoking ways to rethink his texts." - D. D. Schierenbeck, Immanuel Lutheran College (CHOICE) "It is a book by specialists, for specialists, offering unique and fresh insight into the ways that Blake’s work resonates through a broad variety of ideas, theoretical concepts, and comparative illuminations."- Jon Saklofske, Acadia University (European Romantic Review)