{"product_id":"blake-in-our-time-essays-in-honour-of-g-e-bentley-jr-hardback-9781442641518","title":"Blake in Our Time; Essays in Honour of G.E. Bentley, Jr. (Hardback) 9781442641518","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBlake in Our Time\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEssays in Honour of G.E. Bentley, Jr.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKaren Mulhallen (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781442641518\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 30 June 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages, 30 halftones; 1 table\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16.1 x 2.6 cm, 0.66 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e‘\u003cem\u003eBlake in Our Time\u003c\/em\u003e is a magnificent tribute to G. E. Bentley, Jr.-one of the titans in Blake studies of the last, as well as current, century-whose work has “shifted the focus of Blake criticism from formalism and symbolism to the ‘Minute Particulars’ of Blake’s life and work,”’ - Joseph Wittreich (Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly vol 46:03:2012-13)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlake in Our Time\u003c\/em\u003e explores the work of British poet and artist William Blake in the context of the material culture of his era. In the 1960s, University of Toronto scholar G.E. Bentley, Jr almost singlehandedly shifted the focus of Blake criticism from formalism and symbolism to the materiality that contextualizes Blake's work.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFollowing in the footsteps of Bentley's pioneering scholarship, this collection, richly illustrated, demonstrates that the locus of Blake's work lies in the elements that are historically particular to his place and time. Topics include the impact of the town of Chichester on Blake's imagination, the material processes of Blake's painting, the detection of a Blake forgery, and new biographical materials, using archives and online resources, on Blake's contemporaries, patrons, peers, and friends. Essays on the importance of Blake collections world-wide, on variant printings, and on the heirs of Blake in British painting extend the focus of this remarkable investigation to include chalcography and book history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: Blake in Our Time - Minute Particulars \u003cem\u003eby\u003c\/em\u003e Karen Mulhallen (University of Toronto\/Ryerson University\/York University)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePART 1: \"Every Minute Particular is Holy\": Materials\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003col\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cli\u003eCollecting Blake \u003cem\u003eby\u003c\/em\u003e Robert N. Essick (University of California, Riverside)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cli\u003eTwo Fake Blakes Revisited; One Dew-Smith Revealed \u003cem\u003eby\u003c\/em\u003e Joseph Viscomi (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cli\u003e Blake's Painting Materials, Technical Art History, and the Legacy of G.E. Bentley Jr \u003cem\u003eby\u003c\/em\u003e Joyce H. Townsend and Bronwyn A. Ormsby (Tate Gallery, London)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePART 2: \"For Friendship's Sake\": Friends and Patrons\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cli\u003eNew Light on the Mathews: Flaxman and Blake's Early Gothicism \u003cem\u003eby\u003c\/em\u003e David Bindman (University College London)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cli\u003e\"A Ladys Book\": Blake's Engravings for Hayley's The Triumphs of Temper \u003cem\u003eby\u003c\/em\u003e Mark Crosby (Queen's University, Belfast)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cli\u003eMore on Blake's (and Bentley's) 'White Collar Maecenus': Thomas Butts, His Wife's Family of Artisans, and the Methodist Withams of St Bartholomew the Great \u003cem\u003eby\u003c\/em\u003e Mary Lynn Johnson (University of Iowa)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cli\u003e\"Went to see Blake - also to Surgeons college\": Blake and George Cumberland's Pocketbooks \u003cem\u003eby\u003c\/em\u003e Angus Whitehead (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cli\u003eGeorge Richmond, Blake's True Heir? \u003cem\u003eby\u003c\/em\u003e Martin Butlin (Tate Gallery, London\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cp\u003ePART 3: \"What I Both See and Hear\": Architecture and Industry\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003col\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cli\u003eWilliam Blake and Chichester \u003cem\u003eby\u003c\/em\u003e Morton D. Paley (University of California, Berkeley)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cli\u003eWilliam Blake and the Straw Paper Manufactory at Millbank \u003cem\u003eby\u003c\/em\u003e Keri Davies (The Blake Society)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cp\u003eEpilogue: A Memorable Fancy \u003cem\u003eby\u003c\/em\u003e Jerome McGann (University of Virginia)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAppendix: William Blake in Toronto: The Bentley Collection at Victoria University Library \u003cem\u003eby\u003c\/em\u003e Robert Brandeis (Victoria University in the University of Toronto)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52734394138904,"sku":"9781442641518","price":45.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/blake-in-our-time-essays-in-honour-of-g-e-bentley-jr-hardback-9781442641518","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}