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William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790s

By Saree Makdisi

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2007
ISBN
9780226502618
DOI
10.7208/9780226502618
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3274420 bytes)
Pages
412\420
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-15 04:28:00

Description

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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