Overview
- Questions the common (mis)apprehension/representation of Blake as simply anti-Enlightenment
- Approaches Blake’s appropriation of, and engagement with, myth in political terms
- Looks at a broad range of Blake’s work, from the 1780s-1800s
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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.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
David Fallon is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sunderland, UK. From 2009-12 he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford. He has published on Blake and on eighteenth-century and Romantic-period booksellers, and co-edited Romanticism and Revolution: A Reader (2011) with Jon Mee.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Blake, Myth, and Enlightenment
Book Subtitle: The Politics of Apotheosis
Authors: David Fallon
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-39035-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-39034-9Published: 18 January 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-39035-6Published: 09 January 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 343
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations
Topics: Poetry and Poetics, British and Irish Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Literary History