Spring 2012 - University of California Press

HUNTINGTON LIBRARY PRESS
Joshua Paddison
American Heathens
Religion, Race, and Reconstruction
in California
In the 19th-century debate over whether
the United States should be an explicitly
Christian nation, California emerged as a
central battleground. Racial groups that
were perceived as godless and uncivilized
were excluded from suffrage, and evangelism
among Indians and the Chinese was
seen as a politically incendiary act. Joshua
Paddison sheds light on Reconstruction’s
impact on Indians and Asian Americans
by illustrating how marginalized groups
fought for a political voice, refuting racist
assumptions with their lives, words, and
faith. Reconstruction, he argues, was not
merely a remaking of the South, but
rather a multiracial and multiregional
process of reimagining the nation.
Joshua Paddison is American Council of Learned
Societies New Faculty Fellow in the American
Studies Program and the Department of Religious
Studies at Indiana University.
Western Histories, 3
Copublished by The Huntington Library Press
and UC Press
JUNE
272 pages, 6 X 9”, 11 b/w photographs
California & the West/Race & Class/Christianity
World
cloth 978-0-87328-244-4 $44.95/£30.95
Edited by Mark Crosby and
Robert N. Essick
Genesis
William Blake’s Last Illuminated Work
William Blake—poet, printmaker, artist—
drew inspiration from the Bible throughout
his life. Shortly before his death in
1827, he began an illuminated manuscript
of the Book of Genesis, revisiting such key
themes as creation, division, and forgiveness.
This landmark edition of Blake’s
Genesis provides the first full-size color
reproduction of the Huntington Library’s
manuscript. Blake completed 11 pages of
text decorated with pencil and watercolor
designs, including two vibrantly colored
title pages. Blake’s unfinished pages offer
rare insights into his process of composition.
Mark Crosby and Robert N. Essick’s
detailed critical commentary considers the
way in which Blake read his Genesis,
Blake’s relationship with patron John
Linnell, and the iconography of Blake’s
designs and their relation to earlier works.
Mark Crosby is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow
at Queen’s University, Belfast. Robert N. Essick
is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at
the University of California, Riverside.
Published by The Huntington Library Press
FEBRUARY
100 pages, 12-1/2 x 17”, 11 color illustrations,
9 b/w photographs
European Art/English Literature/Christianity
World
cloth 978-0-87328-247-5 $80.00/£55.00
Jee Gam, Congregationalist minister, from
N.R. Johnston, Looking Back from the Sunset
Land (Oakland, California, 1898). From
American Heathens.
Also of interest:
William Blake
Songs of Innocence
and of Experience
Edited by Robert N. Essick
Treasures from the Huntington
Library
Published by The Huntington
Library Press
World
cloth 978-0-87328-236-9
$24.95/£16.95
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