William Blake's Manuscripts

Introduction: "What is Liberty without Universal Toleration": the Recovery, Reconstruction, and Remediation of Blake's Manuscripts.- 1: "Hang Philosophy": Blake's Metaphysical Forays in An Island in the Moon.- 2: From Reynolds to Wright of Derby: Visual References in Blake's An Island in the Moon.- 3: "Blake and 'the wondrous art of writing": Letter Faces, Letter Formation, Capitalization.- 4: "On Every one of these Books I wrote my Opinions": Re-assessing Blake's Marginalia to Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses.- 5: The Page Embodied: Laying Out The Four Zoas.- 6: Blake's Vala, or, The Four Zoas, and the Antiquarians.- 7: Blake's labyrinth of discordant paths: verbal/visual complexity in the two seventh Nights of The Four Zoas.- 8: Illuminating VALA: A Prolegomenon to a Digital Exhibition of Blake's Manuscript.- 9: "All that we See is Vision": William Blake's Four Zoas Manuscript and Multispectral Imaging.- 10: "Go on Conquering": A Re-threshing of Blake's Letters.- 11: From Silken Fetters to Arrows of Desire: Behn, Blake, and the License of Pastoral.- 12: Illuminating Incompleteness: from Tiriel to Blake's Final Imprint.- 13: The Book of Oothoon: Transtextuality, Transexuality, Palimpsests and Skin in Blake's Manuscripts.- 14: "By the Voice of the Servant of the Lord": Blake's New Jerusalem and Swedenborgianism in the work of Sheila Kaye-Smith.

Mark Crosby FSA is Associate Professor of English at Kansas State University, USA. In addition to numerous articles and book chapters on William Blake and his patrons, Mark has co-authored, with Robert N. Essick, Genesis: William Blake's Last Illuminated Book (2012) and co-edited Re-envisioning Blake (2012). He is currently finishing a monograph on Blake and patronage.
Josephine McQuail is Professor of English at Tennessee Tech University, USA. She has published in Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly; Modern Language Studies; The New Review of Children's Literature; and has a piece coming out in The Blake Journal on Blake and the Foundling Hospital.