{"product_id":"william-blake-tilottama-rajan-9781487506568","title":"William Blake: Modernity and Disaster","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWilliam Blake: Modernity and Disaster\u003c\/em\u003e explores the work of the Romantic writer, artist, and visionary William Blake as a profoundly creative response to cultural, scientific, and political revolution. In the wake of such anxieties of discovery, including the revolution in the life sciences, Blake's imagination - often prophetic, apocalyptic, and deconstructive - offers an inside view of such tumultuous and catastrophic change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA hybrid of text and image, Blake's writings and illuminations offer a disturbing and productive exception to accepted aesthetic, social, and political norms. Accordingly, the essays in this volume, reflecting Blake's unorthodox perspective, challenge past and present critical approaches in order to explore his oeuvre from multiple perspectives: literary studies, critical theory, intellectual history, science, art history, philosophy, visual culture, and psychoanalysis. Covering the full range of Blake's output from the shorter prophecies to his final poems, the essays in \u003ci\u003eWilliam Blake: Modernity and Disaster \u003c\/i\u003epredict the discontents of modernity by reading Blake as a prophetic figure alert to the ends of history. His legacy thus provides a lesson in thinking and living through the present in order to ask what it might mean to envision a different future, or any future at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tilottama Rajan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487506562\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487506568\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/26\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2021","brand":"Tilottama Rajan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43990813999359,"sku":"9781487506568","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2494c776-782b-4dd7-8c74-340d8c6785e8.jpg?v=1683306840","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/william-blake-tilottama-rajan-9781487506568","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}