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Historicizing Blake

Steve Clark,David Worrall
Historicizing Blake Book PDF

Author : Steve Clark,David Worrall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349234776

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Historicizing Blake by Steve Clark,David Worrall Pdf

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.

William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s

Saree Makdisi
William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s Book PDF

Author : Saree Makdisi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226502618

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William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s by Saree Makdisi Pdf

Modern scholars often find it difficult to account for the profound eccentricities in the work of William Blake, dismissing them as either ahistorical or simply meaningless. But with this pioneering study, Saree Makdisi develops a reliable and comprehensive framework for understanding these peculiarities. According to Makdisi, Blake's poetry and drawings should compel us to reconsider the history of the 1790s. Tracing for the first time the many links among economics, politics, and religion in his work, Makdisi shows how Blake questioned and even subverted the commercial, consumerist, and political liberties that his contemporaries championed, all while developing his own radical aesthetic.

Blake, Nation and Empire

D. Worrall,S. Clark
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Author : D. Worrall,S. Clark
Publisher : Springer
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230597068

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Blake, Nation and Empire by D. Worrall,S. Clark Pdf

This book examines Blake's work in the context of discourses of nation and empire, of the construction of a public sphere, and restores the longevity to his artistic career by placing emphasis on his work in the 1820s. Relevant contexts include technology, sentimentalism, Ireland and Catholic Emancipation, missionary prospectuses and body politics.

A Guide to the Cosmology of William Blake

Kathryn S. Freeman
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Author : Kathryn S. Freeman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317188070

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A Guide to the Cosmology of William Blake by Kathryn S. Freeman Pdf

It is not surprising that visitors to Blake’s cosmology – the most elaborate in the history of British text and design – often demand a map in the form of a reference book. The entries in this volume benefit from the wide range of historical information made available in recent decades regarding the relationship between Blake’s text and design and his biographical, political, social, and religious contexts. Of particular importance, the entries take account of the re-interpretations of Blake with respect to race, gender, and empire in scholarship influenced by the groundbreaking theories that have arisen since the first half of the twentieth century. The intricate fluidity of Blake’s anti-Newtonian universe eludes the fixity of definitions and schema. Central to this guide to Blake's work and ideas is Kathryn S. Freeman's acknowledgment of the paradox of providing orientation in Blake’s universe without disrupting its inherent disorientation of the traditions whereby readers still come to it. In this innovative work, Freeman aligns herself with Blake’s demand that we play an active role in challenging our own readerly habits of passivity as we experience his created and corporeal worlds.

William Blake and the Productions of Time

Andrew M. Cooper
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Author : Andrew M. Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 533 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351872928

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William Blake and the Productions of Time by Andrew M. Cooper Pdf

Challenging the idea that a writer’s work reflects his experiences in time and place, Andrew M. Cooper locates the action of William Blake’s major illuminated books in the ahistorical present, an impersonal spirit realm beyond the three-dimensional self. Blake, Cooper shows, was a formalist who exploited eighteenth-century scientific and philosophical research on vision, sense, and mind for spiritual purposes. Through irony, dialogism, two-way syntax, and synesthesia, Blake extended and refined the prophetic method Milton forged in Paradise Lost to bring the performativity of traditional oral song and storytelling into print. Cooper argues that historicist attempts to place Blake’s vision in perspective, as opposed to seeing it for oneself, involve a deeply self-contradictory denial of his performativity as a poet-artist. Rather, Blake’s expansion of linear reading into a space of creative, self-conscious collaboration laid the basis for his lifelong critique of dualism in religion and science, and anticipated the non-Euclidean geometrics of twentieth-century Modernism.

William Blake and the Cultures of Radical Christianity

Robert Rix
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Author : Robert Rix
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0754656004

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William Blake and the Cultures of Radical Christianity by Robert Rix Pdf

This study traces the links between William Blake's ideas and radical Christian cultures in late eighteenth-century England. A detailed and historically-grounded study of a key literary figure, this book should appeal to Blake scholars and historians with an interest in the radical and religious culture of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century England. New research on Blake's links to, and reaction against, the Swedenborg New Church make this study a valuable addition to scholarship in this area.

The Romantic Poets

Uttara Natarajan
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Author : Uttara Natarajan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470766354

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The Romantic Poets by Uttara Natarajan Pdf

This welcome addition to the Blackwell Guides to Criticism series provides students with an invaluable survey of the critical reception of the Romantic poets. Guides readers through the wealth of critical material available on the Romantic poets and directs them to the most influential readings Presents key critical texts on each of the major Romantic poets – Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats – as well as on poets of more marginal canonical standing Cross-referencing between the different sections highlights continuities and counterpoints

Blake, Politics, and History

Jackie DiSalvo,G. A. Rosso,Christopher Z. Hobson
Blake Politics and History Book PDF

Author : Jackie DiSalvo,G. A. Rosso,Christopher Z. Hobson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 581 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317381372

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Blake, Politics, and History by Jackie DiSalvo,G. A. Rosso,Christopher Z. Hobson Pdf

First published in 1998, this book formed part of an ongoing effort to restore politics and history to the centre of Blake studies. It adopts a three pronged approach when presenting its essays, seeking to promote a return to the political Blake; to deepen the understanding of some of the conversations articulated in Blake’s art by introducing new, historical material or new interpretations of texts; and to highlight differing perspectives on Blake’s politics among historically focused critics. The collection contains essays with varying methodological assumptions and differing positions on questions central to historicist Blake scholarship.

Blake, Politics, and History

George A. Jr. Rosso Jr.,Christopher Z. Hobson
Blake Politics and History Book PDF

Author : George A. Jr. Rosso Jr.,Christopher Z. Hobson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134820610

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Blake, Politics, and History by George A. Jr. Rosso Jr.,Christopher Z. Hobson Pdf

This anthology of essays charts the work of William Blake - combining traditional and current historicist methods with a plurality of other approaches. While many essays here recuperate a radical Blake opposed to imperialism, slavery, and patriarchy, differences emerge over the nature of Blake's radicalism and his stance on revolution, violence, and democratic pluralism. Contributors may champion a Blake critical of patriarchal discourse and practice, but they remain cautious about Blake's "homocentric" solutions. In the "Blake and women" section, authors seek to reorient discussions by connecting Blake to historical issues concerning women, particularly domestic ideology and the idealised female of the conduct books.

William Blake

J. Beer
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Author : J. Beer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230554863

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William Blake by J. Beer Pdf

This volume on Blake follows the writer's life and combines biography and critical analysis. Covering Blake's early career, his major works and his work as a visual artist, this new study will be a must for all Blake scholars and enthusiasts. Recent discoveries concerning Blake's forebears and their religion make this new study additionally timely.

Blake and the City

Jennifer Davis Michael
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Author : Jennifer Davis Michael
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838756468

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Blake and the City by Jennifer Davis Michael Pdf

Though usually classified as a Romantic, Blake subverts and dissolves the binaries on which Romanticism turns: self and other, art and nature, country and city. Rather than reject the city outright like many of his contemporaries, Blake embraces it as the intricate workshop of human imagination. Each chapter of this book focuses on a specific text of Blake's that illustrates a particular conception of metaphorical embodiment of the city. These shifting metaphors emphasize the construction of all human environments and the need for imaginative labor to build and interpret them. This study seeks to bridge a gap between transcendent and historicist readings of Blake while at the same time challenging assumptions that still color our view of the city in the twenty-first century. Jennifer Davis Michael is Associate Professor of English at the University of the South.

William Blake's Religious Vision

Jennifer G. Jesse
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Author : Jennifer G. Jesse
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739177907

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William Blake's Religious Vision by Jennifer G. Jesse Pdf

In this innovative study, Jesse challenges the prevailing view of Blake as an antinomian and describes him as a theological moderate who defended an evangelical faith akin to the Methodism of John Wesley. She arrives at this conclusion by contextualizing Blake's works not only within Methodism, but in relation to other religious groups he addressed in his art, including the Established Church, deism, and radical religions. Further, she analyzes his works by sorting out the theological "road signs" he directed to each audience. This approach reveals Blake engaging each faction through its most prized beliefs, manipulating its own doctrines through visual and verbal guide-posts designed to communicate specifically with that group. She argues that, once we collate Blake's messages to his intended audiences--sounding radical to the conservatives and conservative to the radicals--we find him advocating a system that would have been recognized by his contemporaries as Wesleyan in orientation. This thesis also relies on an accurate understanding of eighteenth-century Methodism: Jesse underscores the empirical rationalism pervading Wesley's theology, highlighting differences between Methodism as practiced and as publicly caricatured. Undergirding this project is Jesse's call for more rigorous attention to the dramatic character of Blake's works. She notes that scholars still typically use phrases like "Blake says" or "Blake believes," followed by some claim made by a Blakean character, without negotiating the complex narrative dynamics that might enable us to understand the rhetorical purposes of that statement, as heard by Blake's respective audiences. Jesse maintains we must expect to find reflections in Blake's works of all the theologies he engaged. The question is: what was he doing with them, and why? In order to divine what Blake meant to communicate, we must explore how those he targeted would have perceived his arguments. Jesse concludes that by analyzing the dramatic character of Blake's works theologically through this wide-angled, audience-oriented approach, we see him orchestrating a grand rapprochement of the extreme theologies of his day into a unified vision that integrates faith and reason.

William Blake in the Desolate Market

G.E. Bentley Jr
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Author : G.E. Bentley Jr
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780773581678

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William Blake in the Desolate Market by G.E. Bentley Jr Pdf

Experience taught William Blake that "Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy." His brilliant achievements as a poet, painter, and engraver brought him public notice, but little income. William Blake in the Desolate Market records how Blake, the most original of all the major English poets, earned his living. G.E. Bentley Jr, the dean of Blake scholars, details the poet's occupations as a commercial engraver, print-seller, teacher, copperplate printer, painter, publisher, and vendor of his own books. In his early career as a commercial engraver, Blake was modestly prosperous, but thereafter his fortunes declined. For his most ambitious commercial designs, he made hundreds of folio designs and scores of engravings, but was paid scarcely more than twenty pounds for two or three years' work. His invention of illuminated printing lost money, and many of his greatest works, such as Jerusalem, were left unsold at his death. He came to believe that his "business is not to gather gold, but to make glorious shapes." William Blake in the Desolate Market is an investigation of Blake's labours to support himself by his arts. The changing prices of his works, his costs and receipts, as well as his patrons and employers are expertly gathered and displayed to show the material side of the artistic career in Britain's Romantic period.

Blake and the Methodists

M. Farrell
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Author : M. Farrell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137455505

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Blake and the Methodists by M. Farrell Pdf

Exploring the work of William Blake within the context of Methodism – the largest 'dissenting' religious group during his lifetime – this book contributes to ongoing critical debates surrounding Blake's religious affinities by suggesting that, contrary to previous thinking, Blake held sympathies with certain aspects of Methodism.

William Blake and the Art of Engraving

Mei-Ying Sung
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Author : Mei-Ying Sung
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317314264

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William Blake and the Art of Engraving by Mei-Ying Sung Pdf

Sung closely examines William Blake’s extant engraved copper plates and arrives at a new interpretation of his working process. Sung suggests that Blake revised and corrected his work more than was previously thought. This belies the Romantic ideal that the acts of conception and execution are simultaneous in the creative process.