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Historicizing Blake puts Blake back into the cultural context of his times. These new essays by both established and younger scholars re-address Blake''s contemporary milieu after the neglect of ten years of post-structuralist, reader-orientated, methodology. By employing notions of history wider than the purely ''literary'', and featuring an important new essay by the period''s foremost subcultural historian, Iain McCalman, Historicizing Blake represents a significant contribution towards the re-historicizing of Romanticism.