William Blake and the visionary law : prophecy, legislation and constitution / Matthew Mauger.
Mauger, Matthew.
2023
PR4147 .M38 2023
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Title William Blake and the visionary law : prophecy, legislation and constitution / Matthew Mauger.
Author Mauger, Matthew.
ISBN 9783031377235 electronic book
3031377230 electronic book
3031377222
9783031377228
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37723-5
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-031-37723-5 doi
Call Number PR4147 .M38 2023
Dewey Decimal Classification 821/.709
Summary This book examines the difficult relationship between individual intellectual freedom and the legal structures which govern human societies in William Blakes works, showing that this tension carries a political urgency that has not yet been recognised by scholars in the field. In doing so, it offers a new approach to Blakes corpus that builds on the literary and cultural historical work of recent decades. Blakes pronouncements about law may often sound biblical in tone; but this book argues that they directly address (and are informed by) eighteenth-century legal debates concerning the origin of the English common law, the autonomy of the judicature, the increasing legislative role of Parliament, and the emergence of the notions of constitutionalism and natural rights. Through a study of his illuminated books, manuscript works, notebook drafts and annotations, this study considers Blakes understanding that law is both integral to humanity itself and a core component of its potential fulfilment of the Human Form Divine. Matthew Mauger is Senior Lecturer in English at Queen Mary University of London, UK. His research focuses on the intellectual, literary and commercial life of London in the eighteenth century, with a particular interest in how the administrative frameworks associated with the city civil, legal, political, financial provide contexts for literary expression. He is co-author of Stealing Books in Eighteenth-Century London (2016) and of Empire of Tea: The Asian Leaf that Conquered the World (2015).
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Intro
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Abbreviations
List of Figures
Chapter 1: Introduction
Blake, Law, and the Antinomian Turn
Courtroom, Nationhood, and Prophecy
Chapter 2: Laws Ancient and Modern: Nation, Custom and Legislative Renewal
Building Legal Castles
Law and the Myth of the Ancient Constitution
Human History and the Laws of God
Constitutionalism and Legal Nation Building
Law, Nation, and Manners in Blake's Prophetic Work
Chapter 3: One Law for the Lion and the Ox is Oppression: The Emergence of Universal Law
Why is One Law Given?

One Law is Oppression
Is There Not One Law?
The Stony Law Stamped to Dust
Chapter 4: One King, One God, One Law: Building Constitutions in the Lambeth Books
The Constitution of Mind and Body
Urizen Gives His Laws to the Nations
The Strife of Blood
Chapter 5: The Heavens Squared by a Line: Legal Architecture and Mystery
Strong Heroic Verse, Marshalled in Order
The Architecture of the Law
Antinomian Fire Extinguished
Legal Travel Journals
Glimpsing the Laws of Eternity
Chapter 6: Such are the Laws of Eternity: Recovery, Redemption, and Prophecy

Radical Prophecy and the Law
Punishment and Death-The Law of Satan's Elect
Golgonooza and the Machinery of Redemption
Self-Annihilation and the Laws of Eternity
Chapter 7: Creating Nature from this Fiery Law: Towards Visionary Legislation?
The Wheel of Religion
Building Laws of Moral Virtue
The Covenant of Jehovah
London, Law, and the Human Form Divine
Chapter 8: Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

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