The Reception of Blake in the Orient

List of Illustrations; Notes 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 (Kobe 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: Yangi's Perception of Blake, Ayako Wada (Tottori University); 13 Self-Annihilation in Milton, Hatsuko Nimii (Japan Women's University); 14 An Ideological Map of (Mis)reading: William Blake and Yanagi Muneyoshi in Early Twentieth-century Japan, Kazuyoshi Oishi (University of the Air); 15 The Female Voice in Blake Studies in Japan, 1910s-1930s, Yoko Ima-Izumi (University of Tsukuba); 16 Blake as Inspiration to Yanagi and Jugaku, Shinsuke Tsurumi; 17 Individuality and Expression: The Shirakaba Group and the Early Reception of Blake's Visual Art Works in Japan, Yumiko Goto (Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art); Part III: Blake in the Orient: Later Responses; 18 Blake's Night: Tanizaki's Shadows, Jeremy Tambling; 19 Oe Kenzaburo's Reading of Blake: An Anglophone Perspective, Barnard Turner (National University of Singapore); 20 Nebuchadnezzar's Sublime Torments: William Blake, Arthur Boyd and the East, Peter Otto (University of Melbourne). 21 William Blake in Taiwan, Ching-erh Chang (National Taiwan University); 22 'Walking thro' Eternity': Blake's Psychogeography and other Pedestrian Practices, Jason Whittaker (University College Falmouth); 23 Blake's Question (from the Orient), John Phillips (National University of Singapore); Bibliography; Index.