Special Issue: William Blake: The Man from the Future?
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 186453118
- Type
- B - Edited book
- DOI
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10.1080/14714787.2018.1533428
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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A - SALC
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Trodd was commissioned as lead editor of a Special Issue of Visual Culture in Britain as a response to the impact of his 2012 monograph on Blake’s critical afterlife. The multimedial nature of Blake’s art informs Trodd’s contributions to the Special Issue, ‘William Blake: The Man From the Future?’. The volume crosses conventional disciplinary boundaries to produce a much-needed critical engagement with Blake’s impact on modern culture. To that end, Trodd commissioned seven articles by a range of Blake experts to address the artist’s ‘forwardness’ in the visual and performing arts. Essays cover Blake’s legacies in art movements including Surrealism Expressionism as well as his place in nationalist discourses and religious practice.
In addition to his editorial role, Trodd’s original contribution comprises three productions - ‘Introduction: William Blake: The Man From The Future?’, pp. 285-88 (co-authored with Jason Whittaker); the single-authored essay ‘The Energy Man: Blake, Nietzscheanism and Cultural Criticism in Britain, 1890-1920’, pp. 289-303; and moderation and editing of the forum ‘William Blake and the Age of Aquarius: A Roundtable Discussion’, pp. 393-95. Individually and as whole, these texts are unique in providing the critical contexts for Blake’s multiple identifications as aesthete, neo-vitalist, theo-political outsider, and herald of energy-centred readings of cultural life pioneered by Nietzsche.
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