Naomi Billingsley
Biographic Data
| ID | 6639693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naomi Billingsley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naomi |
| FAMILY NAME | Billingsley |
| SIGNATURE | BILLINGSLEY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Manchester England |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2219-1090 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Recent Publications on the Art of William Blake
An ‘Apostle of Futurity’
This article examines a strand of William Blake criticism from the second quarter of the twentieth century that styled his work as an embodiment of a universal religious worldview. In particular, it focuses on the writings of Max Plowman and John Middleton Murry from the mid 1920s to the early 1940s, for whom Blake’s works were portals into eternity and the future, and who celebrated Blake as prophet of a spiritual Weltanschauung for the modern a…
Re-viewing William Blake’s Paradise Regained (c. 1816–1820)
This article presents a revisionist reading of William Blake’s (1757–1827) twelve watercolor designs for John Milton’s “Paradise Regained” (c. 1816–1820). The designs have previously been dismissed in critical commentary as of little interest to Blake scholarship, or regarded as a narrative merely about Christ’s human nature. This article argues that they are also a visual expression of Blake’s cosmology; it is proposed that the designs express a…
Genesis
A review of 'Genesis: William Blake's Last Illuminated Work', edited by:Mark Crosby and Robert N. Essick, with an introduction by Robert R. Wark. San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 2012. ISBN:978-0-87328-247-5
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Genesis
A review of 'Genesis: William Blake's Last Illuminated Work', edited by:Mark Crosby and Robert N. Essick, with an introduction by Robert R. Wark. San Marino, CA: The Huntington Library, 2012. ISBN:978-0-87328-247-5
An ‘Apostle of Futurity’
This article examines a strand of William Blake criticism from the second quarter of the twentieth century that styled his work as an embodiment of a universal religious worldview. In particular, it focuses on the writings of Max Plowman and John Middleton Murry from the mid 1920s to the early 1940s, for whom Blake’s works were portals into eternity and the future, and who celebrated Blake as prophet of a spiritual Weltanschauung for the modern a…
Re-viewing William Blake’s Paradise Regained (c. 1816–1820)
This article presents a revisionist reading of William Blake’s (1757–1827) twelve watercolor designs for John Milton’s “Paradise Regained” (c. 1816–1820). The designs have previously been dismissed in critical commentary as of little interest to Blake scholarship, or regarded as a narrative merely about Christ’s human nature. This article argues that they are also a visual expression of Blake’s cosmology; it is proposed that the designs express a…
Recent Publications on the Art of William Blake
Art (4 works) · Art history (4 works) · Moravian Church and William Blake (4 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (2 works) · Theology (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Apostle (1 work)