Visions of Blake William Blake in the Art World 1830-1930

How was William Blake remembered and with what forms of knowledge was he associated by those thinkers, commentators, curators and practitioners concerned with the identity and development of British visual culture in the hundred years after his death? How did such cultural agents understand his idea of an artworld? Visions of Blake, the first full-length account of Blake's afterlife as a painter, designer and art writer, sets out to address these and related issues. In addition to analysing how Blake is remodelled by Ruskin, the Rossetti brothers, Swinburne, Symons, Yeats, Chesterton and Fry, it explains why Blake is recast by leading artists and designers throughout this period. This interdisciplinary book is intended for all students and academics interested in Blake, Romanticism, Victorian culture and modern art.

Colin Trodd is Senior Lecturer in the School of Arts, Cultures and Histories, University of Manchester. He has co-edited Victorian Culture and the Idea of the Grotesque (Ashgate, 1999), Art and the Academy in the Nineteenth Century (Manchester University Press, 2000), Governing Cultures (Ashgate, 2001), and Representations of G. F. Watts (Ashgate, 2004), and is the author of Blake's Shadow (Whitworth Art Gallery, 2008).