Introduction by Karen Mulhallen, Ryerson University.
Karen Mulhallen welcomes attendees to the Blake in Our Time symposium and outlines the future of Blake studies in the light of the ongoing legacy of G. E. Bentley, Jr.
Time: 5:33 min
Size: 65Mb
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Recovering The Earliest Versions of Blake’s Oddest Book by Joseph Viscomi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Joseph Viscomi demonstrates how archival research has been radically transformed in the past three decades with particular reference to The Song of Los.
Time: 23:21 min
Size: 273Mb
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Blake’s Pictures at ‘The Salterns’ & How Captain Butts Challenged his Sister’s Inheritance by Mary Lynn Johnson, University of Iowa.
Mary Lynn Johnson examines some of the biographical details of one of Blake’s most important patrons, Thomas Butts, who commissioned a series of biblical watercolours from Blake at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Time: 28:15 min
Size: 330Mb
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Three papers from the Blake in Our Time Panel – “Songs for Thomas Butts: Visions of the ‘Title Page’,‘Earth’s Answer’ and ‘The Tyger'” by John E Grant, University of Iowa, “Disputing the Sins of His father: Thomas Cromek contra Gilchrist” by Dennis Read, Denison University, Granville Ohio and “Without Contraries Is No Progression: Did Blake Invent Modernist Cinema?” by Garry Leonard, University of Toronto.
Time: 53:19 min
Size: 624Mb
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Three more papers – “Blake’s Seal” by Mark Crosby, Leverhulme early career fellow, Queen’s University, Belfast, “Brother Blake & Sister Blake: and the lost Moravian History of William Blake’s family” by Keri Davies, Independent Scholar, Vice president of the Blake Society, and “The Mouth of A True Orator: Jerusalem’s Operating Instructions” by Susanne Sklar, The Cumnor fellow, Oxford University.
Time: 33:14 min
Size: 389Mb
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