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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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Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- List of Figures
- Chapter 1: Introduction: âA Saint Amongst the Infidels & a Heretic with the Orthodoxâ
- Chapter 2: âThe Deep Indelible Stainâ: Apotheosis in the Eighteenth Century
- Chapter 3: âSpirits of Fireâ: Ambiguous Figures in The French Revolution
- Chapter 4: âBreathing! Awakening!â: Contesting and Transforming Apotheosis in America a Prophecy
- Chapter 5: âThe Night of Holy Shadowsâ: Europe and Loyalist Reaction
- Chapter 6: âSerpentine Dissimulationâ: Apotheosis in Urizen, Ahania, and The Song of Los
- Chapter 7: âThe Name of the Wicked Shall Rotâ: Blakeâs Oriental Apotheoses of Nelson and Pitt
- Chapter 8: Transforming Apotheosis in The Four Zoas and Milton
- Chapter 9: âEver Expanding in the Bosom of Godâ: Deification and Apotheosis in Jerusalem
- Chapter 10: Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index