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DANGEROUS ENTHUSIASM
WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE CULTURE OF RADICALISM IN THE 1790S

By:

Jon Mee

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0198122268

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9780198122265

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Publisher:

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

13 August, 1992

Series:

Clarendon Paperbacks

Pages:

268

Description:

Considering Blake's prophetic books of the 1790s in the light of the French Revolution controversy raging at the time, this study argues that his work is less the expression of isolated genius than the product of a complex response to the cultural politics of his contemporaries.

Synopsis:

William Blake's work presents a stern challenge to historical criticism. Jon Mee's new study meets that challenge by investigating contexts outside the domains 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 sceptical 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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8 pp plates

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Clarendon Press

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