 | Blake, Politics, and History Subjects: History and Politics; Culture; Genre; Language & Literature; Radicalism; Religion and Atheism; Poetry; Art; Philosophy; The Essay; Revolution; Reviews and Magazines; Empire; Slavery and Abolition; Gender and Sexuality; Literature; French Revolution; American Revolution and its Influence; Interdisciplinary Literary Studies; Literary Genres; Literature by Period; First published in 1998, this book formed part of an ongoing effort to restore politics and history to the centre of Blake studies. It adopts a three pronged approach when presenting its essays, seeking to promote a return to the political Blake; to deepen the understanding of some of the conversations articulated in Blake's art by introducing new, historical material or new interpretations of texts; and to highlight differing perspectives on Blake's politics among historically focused critics. The collection contains essays with varying methodological assumptions and differing positions on questions central to historicist Blake scholarship. Jackie Disalvo, G. A. Rosso, Christopher Z. Hobson |
