Historicizing Blake

by Steve Clark (Editor), David Worrall (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333568194
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/19/1994
Edition description:	1994
Pages:	188
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface - List of Illustrations - Introduction; S.Clark & D.Worrall - The Infidel as Prophet: William Reid and Blakean Radicalism; I.McCalman - Is there an Antinomian in the House? William Blake and the After-Life of a Heresy; J.Mee - 'Self-Imposition': Alchemy, and the Fate of the 'Bound' in later Blake; E.Larrissy - Blake and the 'reasoning historian'; A.Lincoln - 'Among the flocks of Tharmas': The Four Zoas and the Pastoral of Commerce; P.Cox - Blake and the 'Fluxions of the Atom', Democritus to Priestley; M.L.Johnson - Innovative Reproduction: Painters and Engravers at the Royal Academy of Arts; D.Dorrbecker - 'Idolatry or Politics': Blake's Chaucer and the Powers of 1809; A.S.Gourlay - 'The Sins of the Fathers': Patriarchal Criticism and The Book of Thel; H.Bruder - Blake's Reinterpretation of History: the Impact of the Book of Enoch; J.Beer - Blake Bibliography - Index