Today Blake scholarship is experiencing a period of unprecedented variety and mutuality. These essays reflect the methodological cross-fertilisations now taking place in Blake scholarship and explore the range of debates and contentions generated by these encounters, embracing figurative, structural, and material readings of Blake's life and works.

This collection of essays celebrates the 250th anniversary of William Blake's birth and gathers together some of the most influential strands of current criticism on Blake

List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: 'the fierce rushing of th' inhabitants together'; M.Crosby , T.Patenaude & A.Whitehead 'mutual interchange': Life, Liberty, and Community; S.Makdisi & J.Mee Inconvenient Truths: Re-Historicizing the Politics of Dissent and Antinomianism; K.Davies & D.Worrall 'Thou readst white where I readst black': William Blake, the Hymn 'Jerusalem', and the Far-Right; S.Dent Blake, America and Enlightenment; A.Lincoln Georgian Superwoman or 'the maddest of the two'?: Recovering the Historical Catherine Blake, 1761-1831; M.Crosby & A.Whitehead Blake's Malkin; S.Matthews Prospects of Divine Humanity: A Vision of Heaven, Earth, and Hell; J.E.Grant The Death and Assumption of Blake's Mary: Anomalous Subjects in the Biblical Watercolour Series for Thomas Butts; M.L.Johnson Christ and the Bridal Bed: Eighteenth-Century Moravian Sex-Positive Spirituality as a Possible Influence on Blake; C.D.Atwood 'nourished by the spirits of forests and floods': Blake, Nature, and Modern Environmentalism; T.Patenaude 'Zoamorphosis: 250 Years of Blake Mutations'; J.Whittaker Afterword: A Last Word at 250; M.Eaves Works Cited Index