Witness against the beast : William Blake and the moral law / E.P. Thompson.
By: Thompson, E. P. (Edward Palmer)
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BookPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993Description: xxi, 234 p., [20] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.ISBN: 0521225159.Subject(s): Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Political and social views | Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Religion | Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Ethics | Radicalism in literature | Ethics in literatureDDC classification: 821.7 BLA
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 821.7 BLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00063509 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
E. P. Thompson's long-awaited book on William Blake was published shortly after the historian's death in August 1993. Acclaimed as one of his best and most deeply felt works, it appears now for the first time in paperback. Written with a vivid passion, and bearing the marks of Thompson's lifelong struggle against authoritarian and anti-humanitarian politics both at the level of the individual and of the state, Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law is a profound enquiry into the structure of Blake's thought and the character of his sensibility. Its qualities are among those which place Thompson himself in the same tradition of dissenting values and non-conforming radicalism represented by Blake some two hundred years earlier.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part I Inheritance
- 1 Works or faith?
- 2 Antinomianisms
- 3 The 'Ranting' impulse
- 4 The polite witness
- 5 Radical dissent
- 6 A peculiar people
- 7 Anti-hegemony
- Appendix 1 The Muggletonian archive
- Appendix 2 William Blake's mother
- Part II Human Images: Introduction
- 8 The new Jerusalem Church
- 9 'The Divine Image'
- 10 From innocence to experience
- 11 'London'
- 12 'The Human Abstract'
- 13 Conclusion