Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s

by Jon Mee

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

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0198122268

ISBN13:9780198122265

Release Date:December 1992

Publisher:Clarendon Press

Length:268 Pages

Weight:1.17 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"

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