This book explores the ways in which Blake reacted to the subcultures of his day, as well as how he has inspired popular, modernist and postmodernist figures until the present day. Blake's influence on later generations of writers and artists is more important than ever, extending into film, psychology, children's literature and graphic novels.

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SHIRLEY DENT Press officer for the Institute of Ideas MARK DOUGLAS Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University College Falmouth, Cornwall, UK WAYNE GLAUSSER Chair of English, DePauw University, USA MICHELLE LEIGH GOMPF Assistant Professor, Division of Language and Literature, Concord University, West Virginia, USA MATTHEW J.A. GREEN Lecturer in Modern English Literature, University of Nottingham, UK JAMES KEERY Teacher of English, Fred Longworth High School, Tyldesley, UK EDWARD LARRISSY Professor of English Literature, University of Leeds, UK MARK LUSSIER Associate Professor of English, Arizona State University, USA SUSAN MATTHEWS Senior Lecturer in English, Roehampton University, UK CHRISTOPHER RANGER Teacher, Canon Palmer Catholic School, London, UK G.A. ROSSO Professor of English, Southern Connecticut State University, USA COLIN TRODD Lecturer in Art History, University of Manchester, UK DAVID WORRALL Professor of English, Nottingham Trent University, UK.

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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Abbreviations Introduction: Blake, Modernity and Popular Culture; S.Clark & J.Whittaker Popular Millenarianism and Empire in Blake's Night Thoughts ; G.A.Rosso Blake in Theatreland: Fountain Court and its Environs; D.Worrall Emanations and Negations of Blake in Victorian Art Criticism; C.Trodd 'Esoteric Blakists' and the 'weak brethren': How Blake Lovers Kept the Popular Out; S.Dent Blake: Between Romanticism and Modernism; E.Larrissy 'There is no Competition': Eliot on Blake, Blake in Eliot; S.Clark Children of Albion: Blake and Contemporary British Poetry; J.Keery Queer Bedfellows: William Blake and Derek Jarman; M.Douglas 'This Angel, who is now a Devil, is my particular Friend': Diabolic Friendships and Oppositional Interrogation in Blake and Rushdie; M.Green Friendly Enemies: A Dialogical Encounter Between William Blake and Angela Carter; C.Ranger Blake Beyond Postmodernity; M.Lussier What Is It Like To Be a Blake? Psychiatry, Drugs and the Doors of Perception; W.Glausser The Silence of the Lamb and the Tyger: Harris and Blake, Good and Evil; M.Gompf From Hell: Blake and Evil in Popular Culture; J.Whittaker Fit Audience Tho Many: Pullman's Blake and the Anxiety of Popularity; S.Matthews Bibliography Index