William Blake And The Visionary Law

Author : Matthew Mauger
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783031377228
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Blake and the Visionary Law written by Matthew Mauger and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2023-11-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the difficult relationship between individual intellectual freedom and the legal structures which govern human societies in William Blake’s 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 Blake’s corpus that builds on the literary and cultural historical work of recent decades. Blake’s 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 Blake’s understanding that law is both integral to humanity itself and a core component of its potential fulfilment of the ‘Human Form Divine’.

Author : Matthew Mauger
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031377230
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Blake and the Visionary Law written by Matthew Mauger and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the difficult relationship between individual intellectual freedom and the legal structures which govern human societies in William Blake’s 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 Blake’s corpus that builds on the literary and cultural historical work of recent decades. Blake’s 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 Blake’s understanding that law is both integral to humanity itself and a core component of its potential fulfilment of the ‘Human Form Divine’.

Author : John B. Beer
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blake's Visionary Universe written by John B. Beer and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David V. Erdman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400886767
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blake's Visionary Forms Dramatic written by David V. Erdman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty contributors to this volume offer a new perspective on the relationship between Blake's poetry and his visionary forms. Their illustrated discussions explore and debate the nature of Blake's mixed art and the energetic interaction of text and design. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : William Blake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prophetic Writings of William Blake written by William Blake and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Blake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Prophetic Writings of William Blake, in Two Volumes written by William Blake and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gerda S. Norvig
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520044715
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dark Figures in the Desired Country written by Gerda S. Norvig and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Gerda Norvig has written a book on Blake's Bunyan illustrations that is much more than that: it revises our sense of Blake, of the relationship of illustrator to illustrated text, and the assumptions of Romantic and Romanticist writing. Blake, certainly, will not be the same after Norvig's vigorous analysis, and it is arguable that the same may be true of Romanticism."--Ronald Paulson, author of "Figure and Abstraction in Contemporary Painting" "Specialists in both Blake studies and English Romanticism will find this book extremely interesting and useful. Norvig carefully analyzes for the first time a set of Blake's most accomplished illustrations, a set that (as she points out) has very rarely been reproduced or exhibited. These designs certainly deserve to be better known, and Norvig's insightful and stimulating interpretation of them makes their importance to Blake's thought and career amply clear. This is certainly a book that all Blake specialists will have to know."--Anne K. Mellor, author of "Mary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her Monsters"

Author : William Blake
Publisher : Everyman's Library
ISBN 13 : 0375712550
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blake: Poems written by William Blake and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price which do not compromise content. Poems: Blake contains a full selection of Blake's work, including Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, poems from Blake's Ms. book, poems from The Prophetic Books, and an index of first lines.

Author : William Blake
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Urizen (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake) written by William Blake and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-20 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully crafted ebook: "The Book of Urizen (Illuminated Manuscript with the Original Illustrations of William Blake)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Book of Urizen is one of the major prophetic books of the English poet William Blake, illustrated by Blake's own plates. It was originally published as The First Book of Urizen in 1794. Later editions dropped the word "first". The book takes its name from the character Urizen in Blake's mythology, who represents alienated reason as the source of oppression. The book describes Urizen as the "primeaval priest", and describes how he became separated from the other Eternals to create his own alienated and enslaving realm of religious dogma. Los and Enitharmon create a space within Urizen's fallen universe to give birth to their son Orc, the spirit of revolution and freedom. In form, the book is a parody of the Book of Genesis, with Blake's Urizen being more similar to the demiurge of the Gnostics than a benevolent creator. The poems of William Blake reinterpret the spiritual history of the human race from the fall from Eden to the beginning of the French Revolution. Blake believed in the correspondence between the physical world and the spiritual world and used poetic metaphor to express these beliefs. In his poetry, we hear a man who look's for mankind to salvage his redemption from oppression through resurgence of imaginative life. The power of repression is a constant theme in Blake's poems and he articulates his belief in the titanic forces of revolt and the struggle for freedom against the guardians of tradition. "William Blake (1757 – 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of both the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age.

Author : Susanne M. Sklar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199603146
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blake's 'Jerusalem' As Visionary Theatre written by Susanne M. Sklar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susanne Sklar engages with the interpretive challenges of William Blake's illuminated epic poem Jerusalem by considering it as a piece of visionary theatre - an imaginative performance in which characters, settings, and imagery are not confined by mundane space and time - allowing readers to find coherence within its complexities.