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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.
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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.
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"The history of all times & places," William Blake once wrote, "is nothing else but improbabilities and impossibilities; what we should say, was impossible if we did not see it always before our eyes." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hegemonic radicals, material reiteration, prophetical extracts, plebeian enthusiasm, illuminated hooks, antinomian enthusiasm, fierce rushing, artistic machine, disciplinary necessity, antinomian stance, antinomian tradition, illuminated books, complicated wheels, ontological power, antinomian belief, one law for the lion, nothing commodity, dangerous enthusiasm, illuminated printing, infidel societies, narrowing perceptions, same dull round, composite art, earliest factories, prophet against empire Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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"The history of all times & places," William Blake once wrote, "is nothing else but improbabilities and impossibilities; what we should say, was impossible if we did not see it always before our eyes." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hegemonic radicals, material reiteration, prophetical extracts, plebeian enthusiasm, illuminated hooks, antinomian enthusiasm, fierce rushing, artistic machine, disciplinary necessity, antinomian stance, antinomian tradition, illuminated books, complicated wheels, ontological power, antinomian belief, one law for the lion, nothing commodity, dangerous enthusiasm, illuminated printing, infidel societies, narrowing perceptions, same dull round, composite art, earliest factories, prophet against empire Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Tom Paine, Jon Mee, London Corresponding Society, Visions of the Daughters, French Revolution, Rosenwald Collection, American War of Independence, Robert Essick, William Blake Archive, The Four Zoas, Thomas Spence, Library of Congress, Mary Wollstonecraft, Edmund Burke, John Thelwall, Old Testament, Public Address, Richard Lee, Romantic Imperialism, Anna Clark, Divine Image, Jesus Christ, Joseph Johnson, Morris Eaves, National Gallery of Art New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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