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Author : Steve Clark
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Blake, Nation and Empire written by Steve Clark and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : D. Worrall
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230597068
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
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.
Author : Matthew Mauger
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031377230
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)
Download or read book William Blake and the Visionary Law written by Matthew Mauger and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the difficult relationship between individual intellectual freedom and the legal structures which govern human societies in William Blake’s works, showing that this tension carries a political urgency that has not yet been recognised by scholars in the field. In doing so, it offers a new approach to Blake’s corpus that builds on the literary and cultural historical work of recent decades. Blake’s pronouncements about law may often sound biblical in tone; but this book argues that they directly address (and are informed by) eighteenth-century legal debates concerning the origin of the English common law, the autonomy of the judicature, the increasing legislative role of Parliament, and the emergence of the notions of constitutionalism and natural rights. Through a study of his illuminated books, manuscript works, notebook drafts and annotations, this study considers Blake’s understanding that law is both integral to humanity itself and a core component of its potential fulfilment of the ‘Human Form Divine’.
Author : Matthew Leporati
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009285173
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire written by Matthew Leporati and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew Leporati examines the explosive Romantic revival of epic alongside the contemporary revival of missionary activity. His study contributes to charged political debates around British imperialism. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Author : Steve Clark
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441143432
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book The Reception of Blake in the Orient written by Steve Clark and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-04-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together research from international scholars focusing attention on the longevity and complexity of Blake`s reception in Japan and elsewhere in the East. It is designed as not only a celebration of his art and poetry in new and unexpected contexts but also to contest the intensely nationalistic and parochial Englishness of his work, and in broader terms, the inevitable passivity with which Romanticism (and other Western intellectual movements) have been received in the Orient.
Author : A. D. Cousins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316445216
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Home and Nation in British Literature from the English to the French Revolutions written by A. D. Cousins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of conflicting nationalist claims, mass displacements and asylum-seeking, a great many people are looking for 'home' or struggling to establish the 'nation'. These were also important preoccupations between the English and the French revolutions: a period when Britain was first at war within itself, then achieved a confident if precarious equilibrium, and finally seemed to have come once more to the edge of overthrow. In the century and a half between revolution experienced and revolution observed, the impulse to identify or implicitly appropriate home and nation was elemental to British literature. This wide-ranging study by international scholars provides an innovative and thorough account of writings that vigorously contested notions and images of the nation and of private domestic space within it, tracing the larger patterns of debate, while at the same time exploring how particular writers situated themselves within it and gave it shape.
Author : Nicholas Marsh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350310212
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book William Blake: The Poems written by Nicholas Marsh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Blake was ignored in his own time. Now, however, his Songs of Innocence and Experience and 'prophetic books' are widely admired and studied. The second edition of this successful introductory text: - Leads the reader into the Songs and 'prophetic books' via detailed analysis of individual poems and extracts, and now features additional insightful analyses - Provides useful sections on 'Methods of Analysis' and 'Suggested Work' to aid independent study - Offers expanded historical and cultural context, and an extended sample of critical views that includes discussion of the work of recent critics - Provides up-to-date suggestions for further reading William Blake: The Poems is ideal for students who are encountering the work of this major English poet for the first time. Nicholas Marsh encourages you to enjoy and explore the power and beauty of Blake's poems for yourself.
Author : David Fallon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137390352
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Blake, Myth, and Enlightenment written by David Fallon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-01-09 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides compelling new readings of William Blake’s poetry and art, including the first sustained account of his visionary paintings of Pitt and Nelson. It focuses on the recurrent motif of apotheosis, both as a figure of political authority to be demystified but also as an image of utopian possibility. It reevaluates Blake’s relationship to Enlightenment thought, myth, religion, and politics, from The French Revolution to Jerusalem and The Laocoön. The book combines careful attention to cultural and historical contexts with close readings of the texts and designs, providing an innovative account of Blake’s creative transformations of Enlightenment, classical, and Christian thought.
Author : Marion Gibson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415628687
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)
Download or read book Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity written by Marion Gibson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity explores how the mythical and mystical past informs national imaginations. Building on notions of invented tradition and myths of the nation, it looks at the power of narrative and fiction to shape identity, with particular reference to the British and Celtic contexts. The authors consider how aspects of the past are reinterpreted or reimagined in a variety of ways to give coherence to desired national groupings, or groups aspiring to nationhood and its 'defence'. The coverage is unusually broad in its historical sweep, dealing with work from prehistory to the contemporary, with a particular emphasis on the period from the eighteenth century to the present. The subject matter includes notions of ancient deities, Druids, Celticity, the archaeological remains of pagan religions, traditional folk tales, racial and religious myths and ethnic politics, and the different types of returns and hauntings that can recycle these ideas in culture. Innovative and interdisciplinary, the scholarship in Mysticism, Myth and Celtic Identity is mainly literary but also geographical and historical and draws on religious studies, politics and the social sciences. Thus the collection offers a stimulatingly broad number of new viewpoints on a matter of great topical relevance: national identity and the politicization of its myths.
Author : Susan Matthews
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052151357X
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Blake, Sexuality and Bourgeois Politeness written by Susan Matthews and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-07 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Blake's place within a bourgeois culture in the process of redefining the role and meaning of sexuality.
Author : S. Haggarty
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230584284
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Blake and Conflict written by S. Haggarty and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-11-28 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famously, Blake believed that 'without contraries' there could be no 'progression'. Conflict was integral to his artistic vision, and his style, but it had more to do with critical engagement than any urge to victory. The essays in this volume look at conflict as it marked Blake's thinking on politics, religion and the visual arts.
Author : Jennifer Jesse
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739177915
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)
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 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing Blake’s works theologically through a wide-angled lens that encompasses the major religious movements he addressed in his art, Jesse concludes Blake was a theological moderate who defended an evangelical faith akin to the Methodism of John Wesley. She argues that, once we collate the different messages he constructed for each of his target audiences, we find him advocating a system that would have been recognized by his contemporaries as Wesleyan in character.
Author : Steve Clark
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230366686
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Blake 2.0 written by Steve Clark and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-01-24 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blake said of his works, 'Tho' I call them Mine I know they are not Mine'. So who owns Blake? Blake has always been more than words on a page. This volume takes Blake 2.0 as an interactive concept, examining digital dissemination of his works and reinvention by artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers across a variety of twentieth-century media.
Author : M. Farrell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137455500
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Blake and the Methodists written by M. Farrell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Susanne M. Sklar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199603146
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
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.
Author : Steven Goldsmith
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421409062
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Blake's Agitation written by Steven Goldsmith and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-03-15 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Romantic period, the critical thinker's enthusiasm has served to substantiate his or her agency in the world. Blake’s Agitation is a thorough and engaging reflection on the dynamic, forward-moving, and active nature of critical thought. Steven Goldsmith investigates the modern notion that there’s a fiery feeling in critical thought, a form of emotion that gives authentic criticism the potential to go beyond interpreting the world. By arousing this critical excitement in readers and practitioners, theoretical writing has the power to alter the course of history, even when the only evidence of its impact is the emotion it arouses. Goldsmith identifies William Blake as a paradigmatic example of a socially critical writer who is moved by enthusiasm and whose work, in turn, inspires enthusiasm in his readers. He traces the particular feeling of engaged, dynamic urgency that characterizes criticism as a mode of action in Blake’s own work, in Blake scholarship, and in recent theoretical writings that identify the heightened affect of critical thought with the potential for genuine historical change. Within each of these horizons, the critical thinker’s enthusiasm serves to substantiate his or her agency in the world, supplying immediate, embodied evidence that criticism is not one thought-form among many but an action of consequence, accessing or even enabling the conditions of new possibility necessary for historical transformation to occur. The resulting picture of the emotional agency of criticism opens up a new angle on Blake’s literary and visual legacy and offers a vivid interrogation of the practical potential of theoretical discourse.
Author : Monika Class
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443809373
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Transnational England written by Monika Class and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of the modern English nation coincided with England’s increased encounters with other peoples, both at home and abroad. Their cultures and ideas—artistic, religious, political, and philosophical—contributed, in turn, to the composition of England’s own domestic identity. Transnational England sheds light on this exchange through a close investigation of the literatures of the time, from dramas to novels, travel narratives to religious hymns, and poetry to prose, all of which reveal how connections between England and other world communities 1780-1860 simultaneously fostered and challenged the sovereignty of the English nation and the ideological boundaries that constituted it. Featuring essays from distinguished and emergent scholars that will enhance the literary, historical, and cultural knowledge of England's interaction with European, American, Eastern, and Asian nations during a time of increased travel and vast imperial expansion, this volume is valuable reading for academics and students alike.
