William Blake And The Cultures Of Radical Christianity
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Author |
: Robert Rix |
Publisher |
: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages |
: 204 |
Release |
: 2007-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0754656004 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780754656005 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis William Blake and the Cultures of Radical Christianity by : Robert Rix
This study traces the links between William Blake's ideas and radical Christian cultures in late eighteenth-century England. A detailed and historically-grounded study of a key literary figure, this book should appeal to Blake scholars and historians with an interest in the radical and religious culture of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century England. New research on Blake's links to, and reaction against, the Swedenborg New Church make this study a valuable addition to scholarship in this area.
Author |
: Robert Rix |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2016-12-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351872959 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351872958 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis William Blake and the Cultures of Radical Christianity by : Robert Rix
This study traces the links between William Blake's ideas and radical Christian cultures in late eighteenth-century England. Drawing on a significant number of historical sources, Robert W. Rix examines how Blake and his contemporaries re-appropriated the sources they read within new cultural and political frameworks. By unravelling their strategies, the book opens up a new perspective on what has often been seen as Blake's individual and idiosyncratic ideas. We are also presented with the first comprehensive study of Blake's reception of Swedenborgianism. At the time Blake took an interest in Emanuel Swedenborg, the mystical and spiritual writings of the theosophist had become a platform for radical and revolutionary politics, as well as numerous heterodox practices, among his followers in England. Rix focuses on Swedenborgianism as a concrete and identifiable sub-culture from which a number of essential themes in Blake's works are reassessed. This book will appeal not only to Blake scholars, but to anyone studying the radical and sub- culture, religious, intellectual and cultural history of this period.
Author |
: Robert Rix |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 495 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:991536342 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis William Blake by : Robert Rix
Author |
: Robert W. Rix |
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ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1004973960 |
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: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis William Blake: Radical Christianity, Religious Cultures, and the Politics of Print by : Robert W. Rix
Author |
: Jon Mee |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39076001784847 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dangerous Enthusiasm by : Jon Mee
Dangerous Enthusiasm considers Blake's prophetic books written during the 1790s in the light of the French Revolution controversy raging at the time.
Author |
: Magnus Ankarsjö |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 173 |
Release |
: 2014-11-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780786455485 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0786455489 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis William Blake and Religion by : Magnus Ankarsjö
Over the last ten years the field of Blake studies has profited from new discoveries about Blake's life and work. This book examines the effect that Blake's mother's recently discovered Moravianism has had on our understanding of his poetry, and gives special attention to Moravianism and Swedenborgianism and their relation to his sexual politics. This is accomplished by a close reading of Blake's poetry, which examines in detail the subjects of religion, sex, and the attempted colonization of Africa by a Swedenborgian utopian group.
Author |
: John Higgs |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 400 |
Release |
: 2022-05-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781639361540 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1639361545 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis William Blake vs. the World by : John Higgs
A wild and unexpected journey through culture, science, philosophy and religion to better understand the mercurial genius of William Blake. Poet, artist, and visionary, William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. His life passed without recognition and he worked without reward, often mocked, dismissed and misinterpreted. Yet from his ignoble end in a pauper's grave, Blake now occupies a unique position as an artist who unites and attracts people from all corners of society—a rare inclusive symbol of human identity. Blake famously experienced visions, and it is these that shaped his attitude to politics, sex, religion, society, and art. Thanks to the work of neuroscientists and psychologists, we are now in a better position to understand what was happening inside that remarkable mind and gain a deeper appreciation of his brilliance. His timeless work, we will find, has never been more relevant. In William Blake vs the World we return to a world of riots, revolutions, and radicals; discuss movements from the Levellers of the sixteenth century to the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s; and explore the latest discoveries in neurobiology, quantum physics, and comparative religion. Taking the reader on a wild adventure into unfamiliar territory, John Higgs places the bewildering eccentricities of a most singular artist into fascinating context. And although the journey begins with us trying to understand him, we will ultimately discover that it is Blake who helps us to understand ourselves.
Author |
: Jennifer G. Jesse |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780739177907 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0739177907 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis William Blake's Religious Vision by : Jennifer G. Jesse
In this innovative study, Jesse challenges the prevailing view of Blake as an antinomian and describes him as a theological moderate who defended an evangelical faith akin to the Methodism of John Wesley. She arrives at this conclusion by contextualizing Blake's works not only within Methodism, but in relation to other religious groups he addressed in his art, including the Established Church, deism, and radical religions. Further, she analyzes his works by sorting out the theological "road signs" he directed to each audience. This approach reveals Blake engaging each faction through its most prized beliefs, manipulating its own doctrines through visual and verbal guide-posts designed to communicate specifically with that group. She argues that, once we collate Blake's messages to his intended audiences--sounding radical to the conservatives and conservative to the radicals--we find him advocating a system that would have been recognized by his contemporaries as Wesleyan in orientation. This thesis also relies on an accurate understanding of eighteenth-century Methodism: Jesse underscores the empirical rationalism pervading Wesley's theology, highlighting differences between Methodism as practiced and as publicly caricatured. Undergirding this project is Jesse's call for more rigorous attention to the dramatic character of Blake's works. She notes that scholars still typically use phrases like "Blake says" or "Blake believes," followed by some claim made by a Blakean character, without negotiating the complex narrative dynamics that might enable us to understand the rhetorical purposes of that statement, as heard by Blake's respective audiences. Jesse maintains we must expect to find reflections in Blake's works of all the theologies he engaged. The question is: what was he doing with them, and why? In order to divine what Blake meant to communicate, we must explore how those he targeted would have perceived his arguments. Jesse concludes that by analyzing the dramatic character of Blake's works theologically through this wide-angled, audience-oriented approach, we see him orchestrating a grand rapprochement of the extreme theologies of his day into a unified vision that integrates faith and reason.
Author |
: Jennifer Jesse |
Publisher |
: Lexington Books |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 2013-02-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780739177914 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0739177915 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis William Blake's Religious Vision by : Jennifer Jesse
In this innovative study, Jesse challenges the prevailing view of Blake as an antinomian and describes him as a theological moderate who defended an evangelical faith akin to the Methodism of John Wesley. She arrives at this conclusion by contextualizing Blake’s works not only within Methodism, but in relation to other religious groups he addressed in his art, including the Established Church, deism, and radical religions. Further, she analyzes his works by sorting out the theological “road signs” he directed to each audience. This approach reveals Blake engaging each faction through its most prized beliefs, manipulating its own doctrines through visual and verbal guide-posts designed to communicate specifically with that group. She argues that, once we collate Blake’s messages to his intended audiences—sounding radical to the conservatives and conservative to the radicals—we find him advocating a system that would have been recognized by his contemporaries as Wesleyan in orientation. This thesis also relies on an accurate understanding of eighteenth-century Methodism: Jesse underscores the empirical rationalism pervading Wesley’s theology, highlighting differences between Methodism as practiced and as publicly caricatured. Undergirding this project is Jesse’s call for more rigorous attention to the dramatic character of Blake’s works. She notes that scholars still typically use phrases like “Blake says” or “Blake believes,” followed by some claim made by a Blakean character, without negotiating the complex narrative dynamics that might enable us to understand the rhetorical purposes of that statement, as heard by Blake’s respective audiences. Jesse maintains we must expect to find reflections in Blake’s works of all the theologies he engaged. The question is: what was he doing with them, and why? In order to divine what Blake meant to communicate, we must explore how those he targeted would have perceived his arguments. Jesse concludes that by analyzing the dramatic character of Blake’s works theologically through this wide-angled, audience-oriented approach, we see him orchestrating a grand rapprochement of the extreme theologies of his day into a unified vision that integrates faith and reason.
Author |
: Linda Freedman |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 288 |
Release |
: 2018-07-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192542762 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192542761 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis William Blake and the Myth of America by : Linda Freedman
This volume tells the story of William Blake's literary reception in America and suggests that ideas about Blake's poetry and personality helped shape mythopoeic visions of America from the Abolitionists to the counterculture. It links high and low culture and covers poetry, music, theology, and the novel. American writers have turned to Blake to rediscover the symbolic meaning of their country in times of cataclysmic change, terror, and hope. Blake entered American society when slavery was rife and civil war threatened the fragile experiment of democracy. He found his moment in the mid twentieth-century counterculture as left-wing Americans took refuge in the arts at a time of increasingly reactionary conservatism, vicious racism, pervasive sexism, dangerous nuclear competition, and an increasingly unpopular war in Vietnam, the fires of Orc raging against the systems of Urizen. Blake's America, as a symbol of cyclical hope and despair, influenced many Americans who saw themselves as continuing the task of prophecy and vision. Blakean forms of bardic song, aphorism, prophecy, and lament became particularly relevant to a literary tradition which centralised the relationship between aspiration and experience. His interrogations of power and privilege, freedom and form resonated with Americans who repeatedly wrestled with the deep ironies of new world symbolism and sought to renew a Whitmanesque ideal of democracy through affection and openness towards alterity.