William Blake: Modernity and Disaster.

This volume, *William Blake: Modernity and Disaster*, offers a collection of complex essays exploring themes of catastrophe, creativity, and corporeality in William Blake’s works, aimed at readers familiar with theological, philosophical, and psychoanalytic scholarship. The essays examine Blake’s portrayal of disaster as intertwined with creative energy and redemption, highlighting his nuanced treatment of time, effort, and grace, particularly through figures like Los and in texts such as *Jerusalem* and *The Book of Los*. A significant contribution of the book is its focus on the body, addressing corporeality through diverse perspectives including prophecy, psychoanalysis, and New Materialism, and linking Blake’s imagery to broader cultural and historical issues such as abolitionism. The volume is noted for its intellectual ambition and its challenge to existing Blake scholarship, making it a valuable resource for advanced study in Blake’s modernity and representations of disaster.