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Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law

By E. P. Thompson

Book information

Publisher
The New Press
Year
1993
ISBN
1565840992, 9781565840997
LCC
PR4148.P6 T47 1993b
Open Library ID
OL1743572M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8272129 bytes)
Pages
234\280
Topic
Literature
DPI
300
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2024-02-05 18:12:23
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Description

'Witness Against the Beast' is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study in which the renowned social historian E.P. Thompson contends that most of the assumptions scholars have made about William Blake are misleading and unfounded. Brilliantly reexamining Blake’s cultural milieu and intellectual background, Thompson detects in Blake’s poetry a repeated call to resist the usury and commercialism of the “Antichrist” embodied by contemporary society—to “witness against the beast.” E. P. Thompson (1924-1993) was one of England’s foremost historians and social critics. He was the author of The Making of the English Working Class, Customs in Common, Making History, and many other works.

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