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The visionary poet and artist William Blake is one of the most vivid figures in British Romantic literature. With chapters written by leading international scholars, The Reception of William Blake in Europe is the first comprehensive and systematic reference guide to Blake's influence across Europe. Exploring Blake's impact on literature, art, music and culture, the book includes bibliographies of major translations of Blake's work in each country covered, as well as a publication history and timeline of the poet's reception on the continent.

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Author:   Professor Morton D. Paley (University of California, Berkeley, USA) ,  Dr Sibylle Erle (Bishop Grosseteste University College Lincoln, UK) ,  Dr Elinor Shaffer (University of East Anglia)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   1.586kg
ISBN:  

9781472507457

ISBN 10:   1472507452
Publication Date:   21 February 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Mixed media product
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Series Editor's Preface Acknowledgements List of Contributors Abbreviations Timeline of the European Reception of William Blake, 1789-2016 Morton D. Paley Introduction: 'Take Thou These Leaves from the Tree of Life': William Blake in Europe, Sibylle Erle and Morton D. Paley 1. Editing Blake, Morton D. Paley, University of California, Berkeley, USA 2. The Reception of Blake in Ireland, Edward Larrissy, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland. 3. The Reception of Blake in France: Literature and the Visual Arts, Gilles Soubigou,DRAC Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France and Yann Tholoniat, University of Lorraine, France 4. The Reception of Blake in Belgium, Franca Bellarsi,Universite libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, with the research assistance of Gregory Watson, Universite libre de Bruxelles, Belgium 5. The Reception of Blake in Italy, Luisa Cale, Birkbeck University, UK 6. The Reception of Blake in Spain, Cristina Flores, University of La Rioja, Spain 7. 'Enough! or Too much': The Reception of Blake in Portugal, Alcinda Pinheiro de Sousa, University of Lisbon, Portugal and Joao Carlos Callixto, University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies 8. The Reception of Blake in Romania: Keeping a Humane Vision in Times of Trouble, Catalin Ghita, University of Craiova, Romania 9. The Reception of Blake in Germany and Austria in the Nineteenth Century, Susanne Schmid, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany 10. Blake in Germany: The William Blake Exhibition at the Hamburg Kunsthalle and Stadel Museum, Frankfurt, 1975, David Bindman, University College London, UK 11. The Reception of Blake's Art in Germany and Austria: After 1900, Sibylle Erle, Bishop Grosseteste University, UK 12. The Reception of Blake in Switzerland, Angela Esterhammer, University of Toronto, Canada 13. The Reception of Blake in the Netherlands, Ton van Kalmthout, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands 14. The Reception of Blake in Denmark and Norway, Robert W. Rix, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 15. The Reception of Blake in Sweden and Finland, Bo Ossian Lindberg, formerly Abo Akademi, Sweden 16. The Czech Reception of Blake: From Catholic Modernism to Alternative Culture, Martin Prochazka, Charles University, Czech Republic 17. The Reception of Blake in Poland: From Voices in the Night to 'the Choir of the Day!', Eliza Borkowska, University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, Poland 18. The Reception of Blake in Russia and the USSR, Vera Serdechnaia, Analitica Rodis Publishing and Evgenii Serdechnyi, formerly Kuban State Univeristy, Russia 19. The Reception of Blake's Art in Russia: An Echo of Blake's Universe, Tatiana Tiutvinova, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia 20. The Reception of Blake in Hungary, Agnes Peter, Eoetvoes Lorand University, Hungary 21. 'The Most Obscure and Most Angelic of All the English Lyrical Poets': William Blake in the Former Yugoslavia, Tanja Bakic 22. The Reception of Blake in Bulgaria, Ludmilla Kostova, St Cyril and St Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, and Lubomir Terziev, Sofia University, Bulgaria 23. 'Like Prometheus on the Rock': William Blake in Greece, Maria Schoina, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 24. The Reception of Blake in Turkey: Mental Travellers, William Coker, Bilkent University, Turkey 25. Blake and Music, Jason Whittaker, University of Lincoln, UK 26. Blake the Artist: At Tate and Abroad, Martin Myrone, Tate Britain, UK Bibliography Index

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The Reception of William Blake in Europe performs an important task in expanding Blake's afterlife to better encompass its true reach and complexity, and in doing so, opens foundations for new research that will surely be built upon in many years to come. * Romantik *

Author Information

Sibylle Erle, FSRA, is Reader in English Literature at Bishop Grosseteste University, Lincoln, UK. She is the author of Blake, Lavater and Physiognomy (2010) and chapters and articles on Blake and Fuseli, Lavater, Tennyson and Ludwig Meidner and co-curator of the 2010-11 Tate Britain display Blake and Physiognomy. Morton D. Paley is Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He is editor of the Blake Trust edition of 'Jerusalem' and the author of numerous studies in Romantic literature and art, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Fine Arts (2008) and The Traveller in the Evening: The Last Works of William Blake (2003). He is co-editor of Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly.

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