The Reception of Blake in the Orient [Paperback]

This volume brings together research from international scholars focusing attention on the longevity and complexity of Blake`s reception in Japan and elsewhere in the East. It is designed as not only a celebration of his art and poetry in new and unexpected contexts but also to contest the intensely nationalistic and parochial Englishness of his work, and in broader terms, the inevitable passivity with which Romanticism (and other Western intellectual movements) have been received in the Orient.

List of IllustrationsNotes on Contributors 1 Introduction, Steve Clark (University of Tokyo) and Masashi Suzuki (Kyoto University) Part I: The Orient in Blake: The Global Eighteenth Century 2 Thel in Africa: William Blake and the Post-colonial, Post-Swedenborgian Female Subject, David Worrall (Nottingham Trent University) 3 'Typhon, the lower nature': Blake and Egypt as the Orient, Kazuya Okada (Okayama University) 4 Rebekah Bliss: Collector of William Blake and Oriental Books, Keri Davies (The Blake Society) 5 Blake and the Chinamen, Mei-Ying Sung (Nottingham Trent University)6 Colour Printing in the West and East: William Blake and Ukiyo-e, Minne Tanaka 7 Representing Race: The Meaning of Colour and Line in William Blake's 1790s Bodies, Sibylle Erle (Bishop Grosseteste University)8 Africa and Utopia: Refusing a 'local habitation', Susan Matthews (University of Roehampton)9 An Empire of Exotic Nature: Blake's Botanical and Zoomorphic Imagery, Ashton Nichols (Dickinson College)10 Blake, Hayley and India: On Designs to a Series of Ballads (1802), Hikari Sato (Tokyo University)11 The Authority of the Ancients: Blake and Wilkins' translation of the Bhagvat-Gita, Tristanne J. Connolly (St. Jerome's University, Waterloo)Part II: Blake in the Orient: Early-Twentieth-Century Japanese Reception 12 Blake's Oriental Heterodoxy: Yanagi's Perception of Blake, Ayako Wada (Tottori University)13 Self-Annihilation in Milton, Hatsuko Niimi (Japan Women's University)14 An Ideologil³ƒ