Blakes Human Form Divine has long commanded the spotlight. Beastly Blake shifts focus to the non-human creatures who populate Blakes poetry and designs. The author of The Tyger and The Lamb was equally struck by the beastliness and the beauty of the animal kingdom, the utter otherness of animal subjectivity and the meaningful relationships between humans and other creatures. Conversing with the Animal forms of wisdom night & day, Blake fathomed how much they have to teach us about creation and eternity. This collection ranges from real animals in Blakes surroundings, to symbolic creatures in his mythology, to animal presences in his illustrations of Virgil, Dante, Hayley, and Stedman. It makes a third to follow Queer Blake and Sexy Blake in irreverently illuminating blind spots in Blake criticism. Beastly Blake will reward lovers of Blakes writing and visual art, as well as those interested in Romanticism and animal studies.
1. Introduction: Conversing with the Animal forms of wisdom: Helen P. Bruder and Tristanne Connolly.- 2. Blakes Horses of Instruction: Kurt Fosso.- 3. Blakes Auguries of Innocence as / in Radical Animal Politics c. 1800: Anne Milne.- 4. In the Company of Wolves: Blakes Lyca Poems as Political Fable: Elizabeth Effinger.- 5. Apocalyptic Visions, Heroism, and Intersections of the Human and the Not Human in Blakes Milton: Diane Piccitto.- 6. Blake as Shaman: The Neuroscience of Hallucinations and Miltons Lark: David Worrall.- 7. Bestial Metamorphoses: Blakes Variations on Trans-human Change in Dantes Hell: Luisa Cal?.- 8. How sweet is the Shepherds sweet lot?: Sheep in Blakes Designs: Hayley Flynn.- 9. Train of Elephants: Blakes (Un)tamed Beasts and Hayleys Animal Ballads: Mark Crosby.- 10. From Vampire to AlÓ+
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