The Reception of Blake in the Orient

This volume brings together research from international scholars

List of Illustrations

viii

Notes on Contributors

x

1 Introduction

1

(16)

Steve Clark and Masashi Suzuki

PART I: The Orient in Blake: The Global Eighteenth Century

2 Thel in Africa: William Blake and the Post-colonial, Post-Swedenborgian Female Subject

17

(12)

David Worrall

3 'Typhon, the lower nature': Blake and Egypt as the Orient

29

(9)

Kazuya Okada

4 Rebekah Bliss: Collector of William Blake and Oriental Books

38

(25)

Keri Davies

5 Blake and the Chinamen

63

(14)

Mei-Ying Sung

6 Colour Printing in the West and the East: William Blake and Ukiyo-e

77

(10)

Minne Tanaka

7 Representing Race: The Meaning of Colour and Line in William Blake's 1790's Bodies

87

(17)

Sibylle Erle

8 Africa and Utopia: Refusing a 'Local Habitation'

104

(17)

Susan Matthews

9 An Empire of Exotic Nature: Blake's Botanic and Zoomorphic Imagery

121

(13)

Ashton Nichols

10 Blake, Hayley and India: On Designs to a Series of Ballads (1802)

134

(11)

Hikari Sato

11 'The Authority of the Ancients': Blake and Wilkins' Translation of the Bhagvat-Geeta

145

(16)

Tristanne J. Connolly

PART II: Blake in the Orient: The Early-Twentieth-Century Japanese Reception

12 Blake's Oriental Heterodoxy: Yanagi's Perception of Blake

161

(11)

Ayako Wada

13 Self-Annihilation in Milton

172

(9)

Hatsuko Nimii

14 An Ideological Map of (Mis)reading: William Blake and Yanagi Muneyoshi in early-twentieth-century Japan

181

(14)

Kazuyoshi Oishi

15 The Female Voice in Blake Studies in Japan, 1910's-1930's

195

(17)

Yoko Ima-Izumi

16 Blake as Inspiration to Yanagi and Jugaku

212

(4)

Shunsuke Tsurumi

17 Individuality and Expression: The Shirakaba Group's Reception of Blake's Visual Art in Japan

216

(21)

Yumiko Goto

PART III: Blake in the Orient: Later Responses

18 Blake's Night: Tanizaki's Shadows

237

(9)

Jeremy Tambling

19 Oe Kenzaburo's Reading of Blake: An Anglophonic Perspective

246

(14)

Barnard Turner

20 Nebuchadnezzar's Sublime Torments: William Blake, Arthur Boyd and the East

260

(12)

Peter Otto

21 William Blake in Taiwan

272

(7)

Ching-erh Chang

22 'Walking thro' Eternity': Blake's Psychogeography and other Pedestrian Practices

279

(9)

Jason Whittaker

23 Blake's Question (from the Orient)

288

(13)

John Phillips

24 Afterword

301

(2)

Elinor Shaffer

Bibliography

303

(34)

Index

337

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