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Blake in the Nineties

Author : Steve Clark
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349276022
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Blake in the Nineties written by Steve Clark and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1990s have witnessed a major reassessment of Blake initiated by a new and more rigorous comprehension of his modes of production, which in turn has led to re-evaluation of other literary and cultural contexts for his work. Blake in the Nineties grapples with the implications of the new bibliography for Blake studies, in its editorial, interpretative, and historical dimensions. As well as providing an international overview of recent Blake criticism, the collection contributes to current debates in a variety of disciplines dealing with the Romantic period, including art history, counter-Enlightenment-scholarship, theology and hermeneutic theory.

William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s

Author : Saree Makdisi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226502619
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s written by Saree Makdisi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-11-01 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

William Blake and Gender

Author : Magnus Ankarsjö
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786483037
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book William Blake and Gender written by Magnus Ankarsjö and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-27 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The closing years of the eighteenth century were the particular domain of literary radicals whose work challenged ideas on gender and sexuality. During this transitional period, the poetry of William Blake reflected the changing mores of society as well as his own developing notions of gender. This work presents an in-depth exploration of gender issues in Blake’s three epic poems, The Four Zoas, Milton and Jerusalem. The opening chapter discusses basic concepts such as notions of apocalypse, utopia and gender, all essential to the author’s reading of Blake. Background regarding the literary atmosphere of the time, which included influence from the tradition of dissent, English Jacobinism and early feminism, is also included, effectively setting the context for Blake’s work. The book then examines the poems in chronological order. It concentrates particularly on male and female activity within each work (refuting the common assumption that Blake was anti-feminist) while exploring the symbolism of the poetry. Blake’s repeated theme of the struggle between the sexes receives special emphasis, as does the progress of his gender vision through the three poems.

Blake, Nation and Empire

Author : D. Worrall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230597068
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Blake, Nation and Empire written by D. Worrall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-09-24 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

William Blake's Poetry

Author : Jonathan Roberts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441183981
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book William Blake's Poetry written by Jonathan Roberts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-02-28 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reader's Guides provide a comprehensive starting point for any advanced student, giving an overview of the context, criticism and influence of key works. Each guide also offers students fresh critical insights and provides a practical introduction to close reading and to analysing literary language and form. They provide up-to-date, authoritative but accessible guides to the most commonly studied classic texts. William Blake is a Romantic poet who remains popular today, in part because his exceptional insight into psychological, political and social issues remains powerfully relevant. The Reader's Guide begins by introducing Blake's major themes including religious, political and social issues and then moves on to reading key works, including Songs of Innocence and Experience and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. It offers an invaluable introduction to reading Blake's poetry and includes sections on its contexts, language and style, critical reception and adaptation and influence and finally an annotated guide to further reading./span

Visionary Materialism in the Early Works of William Blake

Author : M. Green
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230500277
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Visionary Materialism in the Early Works of William Blake written by M. Green and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-03-23 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating the most recent discoveries concerning Blake's heritage and cultural context, Visionary Materialism in the Early Works of William Blake: The Intersection of Enthusiasm and Empiricism proposes a radical new reading of his early works, that sees them taking enlightenment ideas to heights never dreamed of by Locke and Priestley. Drawing on a careful analysis of key figures from both sides of the enlightenment/counter-enlightenment divide (including Boehme, Swedenborg, the Moravians, Lavater, Brothers, Erasmus Darwin), the discussion traces an alternative tradition that disrupts previous assumptions about important aspects of Blake's thought.

William Blake and the Productions of Time

Author : Andrew M. Cooper
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351872923
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book William Blake and the Productions of Time written by Andrew M. Cooper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Blake's Drama

Author : Diane Piccitto
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137378018
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Blake's Drama written by Diane Piccitto and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blake's Drama challenges conventional views of William Blake's multimedia work by reinterpreting it as theatrical performance. Viewed in its dramatic contexts, this art form is shown to provoke an active spectatorship and to depict identity as paradoxically essential and constructed, revealing Blake's investments in drama, action, and the body.

Blake and the City

Author : Jennifer Davis Michael
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838756461
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (564 download)

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Download or read book Blake and the City written by Jennifer Davis Michael and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 - Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Author : Sarah Haggarty
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350308919
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book William Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience written by Sarah Haggarty and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794) is William Blake's best-known work, containing such familiar poems as 'London', 'Sick Rose' and 'The Tyger'. Evolving over the author's lifetime, the collection was printed by Blake himself on his own press. This Reader's Guide: - Explains the unique development of Songs as an illuminated book - Considers the earliest reactions to the text during Blake's lifetime, and his gathering posthumous reputation in the nineteenth century - Explores modern critical approaches and recent debates - Discusses key topics that have been of abiding interest to critics, including the relationship between text and image in Blake's 'composite art' Insightful and stimulating, this introductory guide is an invaluable resource for anyone who is seeking to navigate their way through the mass of criticism surrounding Blake's most widely-studied work.

Blake's Gifts

Author : Sarah Haggarty
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521117283
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (211 download)

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Download or read book Blake's Gifts written by Sarah Haggarty and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the idea of 'gift-giving' to reassess a wide range of issues in the thought and work of William Blake.

William Blake

Author : J. Beer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230554865
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book William Blake written by J. Beer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-08-02 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

William Blake's Religious Vision

Author : Jennifer Jesse
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739177915
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book William Blake's Religious Vision written by Jennifer Jesse and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Blake's 'Jerusalem' As Visionary Theatre

Author : Susanne M. Sklar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199603146
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Blake's 'Jerusalem' As Visionary Theatre written by Susanne M. Sklar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susanne Sklar engages with the interpretive challenges of William Blake's illuminated epic poem Jerusalem by considering it as a piece of visionary theatre - an imaginative performance in which characters, settings, and imagery are not confined by mundane space and time - allowing readers to find coherence within its complexities.

Queer Blake

Author : H. Bruder
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230277179
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Queer Blake written by H. Bruder and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-05-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous claims have been made for a sexual Blake, from post-lapsarian pessimist to free-loving hippie. Queer Blake raises a flag for the weird, perverse, camp and gay directions of the artist's life and work. The contributors occupy diverse positions, illustrating what fresh interpretations result when heterosexuality is ditched as an ideal.

Blake, Gender and Culture

Author : Helen P Bruder
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317321162
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Blake, Gender and Culture written by Helen P Bruder and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blake's combination of verse and design invites interdisciplinary study. The essays in this collection approach his work from a variety of perspectives including masculinity, performance, plant biology, empire, politics and sexuality.

William Blake in the Desolate Market

Author : G.E. Bentley Jr
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773581677
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book William Blake in the Desolate Market written by G.E. Bentley Jr and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.