Ideology and Utopia in the Poetry of William Blake - Rilegato

Nicholas MWilliams

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ISBN 10: 0521620503 ISBN 13: 9780521620505

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2022

Riassunto

Scholars have often drawn attention to William Blake's unusual sensitivity to his social context. In this book Nicholas Williams situates Blake's thought historically by showing how through the decades of a long and productive career Blake consistently responded to the ideas, writing, and art of contemporaries. Williams presents detailed readings of several of Blake's major poems alongside Rousseau's Emile, Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Paine's Rights of Man, Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France, and Robert Owen's Utopian Experiments. In so doing, he offers revealing new insights into key Blake texts and draws attention to their inclusion of notions of social determinism, theories of ideology-critique, and Utopian traditions. Williams argues that if we are truly to understand ideology as it relates to Blake, we must understand the practical situation in which the ideological Blake found himself. His study is a revealing commentary on the work of one of our most challenging poets.

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Recensione:

"His discussion of Blake and gender, his comparison of the Blakean view of history to Burkean historiography, and his placing of Blake's apocalyptic works and his Jerusalem in critical juxtaposition to The Rights of Man and to Robert Owens's experiments in early socialism allow us to read Blake in a context that is all too often ignored in Blake studies." Joseph W. Childers

Descrizione del libro:

Nicholas Williams situates Blake's thought historically by examining detailed readings of the poet's major works alongside contemporary parallels. The author offers revealing new insights into key Blake texts and draws attention to their inclusion of notions of social determinism, theories of ideology critique, and traditions of twentieth-century Utopias.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2022
• ISBN 10: 0521620503
• ISBN 13: 9780521620505
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 100