Dangerous enthusiasm : William Blake and the culture of radicalism in the 1790s / Jon Mee.

Dangerous Enthusiasm considers Blake's prophetic books written during the 1790s in the light of the French Revolution controversy raging at the time; his works are shown to be less the expressions of isolated genius than the products of a complex response to the cultural politics of his contemp...

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Main Author: Mee, Jon
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1992.
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Table of Contents:
  • A Note on Texts
  • Introduction: Blake the Bricoleur
  • 1. 'Every Honest Man is a Prophet': Popular Enthusiasm and Radical Millenarianism
  • 2. 'Northern Antiquities': Bards, Druids, and Ancient Liberties
  • 3. 'Forms of Dark Delusion': Mythography and Politics
  • 4. Blake, the Bible, and its Critics in the 1790s
  • Conclusion: A Radical Without an Audience?