Blake, myth, and enlightenment : the politics of apotheosis / David Fallon.
Fallon, David James, 1977- author.
2017
PR4147
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Title
Blake, myth, and enlightenment : the politics of apotheosis / David Fallon.
Author
Fallon, David James, 1977- author.
ISBN
9781137390356 (electronic book)
1137390352 (electronic book)
9781137390349
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-39035-6
Published
London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.1057/978-1-137-39035-6 doi
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PR4147
Dewey Decimal Classification
821.7
Summary
This book provides compelling new readings of William Blake’s poetry and art, including the first sustained account of his visionary paintings of Pitt and Nelson. It focuses on the recurrent motif of apotheosis, both as a figure of political authority to be demystified but also as an image of utopian possibility. It reevaluates Blake’s relationship to Enlightenment thought, myth, religion, and politics, from The French Revolution to Jerusalem and The Laocoön. The book combines careful attention to cultural and historical contexts with close readings of the texts and designs, providing an innovative account of Blake’s creative transformations of Enlightenment, classical, and Christian thought.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction: ‘A saint amongst the infidels & a heretic with the orthodox’
1. ‘The deep indelible stain’: Apotheosis in the Eighteenth Century
2. ‘Spirits of fire’: Ambiguous Figures in The French Revolution
3. ‘Breathing! Awakening!’: Contesting and Transforming Apotheosis in America a Prophecy
4. ‘The night of holy shadows’: Europe and Loyalist Reaction
5. ‘Serpentine dissimulation’: Apotheosis in Urizen, Ahania and The Song of Los
6. ‘The Name of the Wicked Shall Rot’: Blake’s Oriental Apotheoses of Nelson and Pitt
7. Transforming Apotheosis in The Four Zoas and Milton
8. ‘Ever expanding in the bosom of God’: Deification and Apotheosis in Jerusalem
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.-.

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