William Blake's Gothic imagination

Chris Bundock is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Regina
Elizabeth Effinger is Assistant Professor of English at the University of New Brunswick

Introduction - Chris Bundock and Elizabeth Effinger Part I: The bounding line of Blake's Gothic: forms, genres, and contexts 1. 'Living Form': William Blake's Gothic relations - David Baulch 2. The horror of Rahab: towards an aesthetic context for William Blake's 'Gothic' form - Kiel Shaub 3. The Gothic sublime - Claire Colebrook Part II: The misbegotten 4. Dark angels: Blake, Milton, and Lovecraft in Ridley Scott's Prometheus - Jason Whittaker 5. William Blake's monstrous progeny: anatomy and the birth of horror in The [First] Book of Urizen - Lucy Cogan 6. Blake's Gothic humour: the spectacle of dissection - Stephanie Codsi Part III: Female space and the image 7. The horrors of creation: globes, englobing powers, and Blake's archaeologies of the present - Peter Otto 8. Female spaces and the Gothic imagination in The Book of Thel and Visions of the Daughters of Albion - Ana Elena González-Treviño Part IV: Sex, desire, perversion 9. The horrors of subjectivity/the jouissance of immanence - Mark Lussier 10. 'Terrible Thunders' and 'Enormous Joys': potency and degeneracy in Blake's Visions and James Graham's celestial bed - Tristanne Connolly Bibliography Index

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While overlooked by extant studies of the Gothic, William Blake's literary and visual oeuvre embodies the same obsessions and fears that inform the Gothic revival with which he was contemporary. -- .