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Blake
In Our Time

A Symposium Celebrating
the Future of Blake Studies
& the Legacy of G.E. Bentley Jr

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Introduction

Welcome & Introductions
Karen Mulhallen
Ryerson University

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Session 1

Collecting Blake
Robert N. Essick
University of California at Riverside

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Recovering The Earliest Versions of Blake’s Oddest Book
Joseph Viscomi
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Session 2

Blake's Pictures at ‘The Salterns’ &
How Captain Butts Challenged his Sister’s Inheritance
Mary Lynn Johnson
University of Iowa

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Blake & George Cumberland’s ‘Pocketbooks’
Angus Whitehead National Institute of Education,
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

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Respondent to morning papers
Alan Bewell University of Toronto

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Session 3

Panel #1
Chair: Alexander Gourlay Rhode Island School of Design

Songs for Thomas Butts:
Visions of the ‘Title Page’,‘Earth’s Answer’ and ‘The Tyger’
John E Grant University of Iowa

Disputing the Sins of His father:
Thomas Cromek contra Gilchrist
Dennis Read Denison University,
Granville Ohio

Without Contraries Is No Progression:
Did Blake Invent Modernist Cinema?
Garry Leonard University of Toronto

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Session 4

Job Returns —
A music & multimedia meditation on
Blake’s Illustrations of the Book of Job
Copyright © 2002 by Stephen Nachmanovitch — used by permission

(Introduced by Brian Corman, University of Toronto)

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Session 5

Panel #2
Chair: Karim Wissa Duke University

Blake’s Seal
Mark Crosby Leverhulme early career fellow,
Queen's University, Belfast

Brother Blake & Sister Blake:
and the lost Moravian History of William Blake’s family
Keri Davies Independent Scholar,
Vice president of the Blake Society

The Mouth of A True Orator:
Jerusalem’s Operating Instructions
Susanne Sklar The Cumnor fellow,
Oxford University

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Performances

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