This chapter adopts the vast spatial scale of terrestrial and cosmic globes. It diagnoses a key tension in Blake’s work between a fascination for global mapping and a suspicion of restrictive abstraction that sees him constantly puncturing the potential for total representation in the manner of the “Apollonian view” as characterised by Denis Cosgrove. In this sense, Blake’s global imagination typifies the problematic of anti-cartographic cartography, which is at the heart of this book. Throughout, Blake’s global visions are placed in dialogue with works by literary forebears Milton and Dante, as well as with eighteenth-century print material drawn from the London print networks examined in Chap. 2 of this book, with a view to seeking out the visual-cultural and literary roots of Blake’s globes. In a final section on a series of global images from Blake’s illuminated book Jerusalem, Blake’s global visions are read alongside the spatial models of Fredric Jameson’s “cognitive mapping” and Manuel DeLanda’s “assemblages.” In so doing, this chapter aims to highlight the contemporary resonance of Blakean mapping, suggesting some important ways in which Blake’s cartographic imagination reaches out towards more recent theories of spatial representation.

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Blake’s Globes

  • Caroline Anjali Ritchie

摘要

This chapter adopts the vast spatial scale of terrestrial and cosmic globes. It diagnoses a key tension in Blake’s work between a fascination for global mapping and a suspicion of restrictive abstraction that sees him constantly puncturing the potential for total representation in the manner of the “Apollonian view” as characterised by Denis Cosgrove. In this sense, Blake’s global imagination typifies the problematic of anti-cartographic cartography, which is at the heart of this book. Throughout, Blake’s global visions are placed in dialogue with works by literary forebears Milton and Dante, as well as with eighteenth-century print material drawn from the London print networks examined in Chap. 2 of this book, with a view to seeking out the visual-cultural and literary roots of Blake’s globes. In a final section on a series of global images from Blake’s illuminated book Jerusalem, Blake’s global visions are read alongside the spatial models of Fredric Jameson’s “cognitive mapping” and Manuel DeLanda’s “assemblages.” In so doing, this chapter aims to highlight the contemporary resonance of Blakean mapping, suggesting some important ways in which Blake’s cartographic imagination reaches out towards more recent theories of spatial representation.