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Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s

Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s

Mee, Jon

Hardcover

Literary FiguresGeneral PoetryGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0198122268
ISBN13: 9780198122265
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Dec 10 1992
Pages: 268
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.88 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
William Blake's work presents a stern challenge to historical criticism. Jon Mee's new study meets that challenge by investigating contexts outside the domain of standard literary histories. He traces the distinctive rhetoric of the illuminated books to the French Revolution controversy of the 1790s and Blake's fusion of the diverse currents of radicalism abroad in that decade. Dangerous Enthusiasm presents a more comprehensively politicized picture of Blake than any previous study. It is supported by a wealth of original research which will be of interest to historians and literary critics alike. Blake emerges from these pages as a bricoleur who fused the language of London's popular dissenting culture with the more skeptical radicalism of the Enlightenment. His prophetic books are shown to be less the expressions of isolated genius than the products of a complex response to the cultural politics of his contemporaries.

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