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Dark Figures in the Desired Country
Blake's Illustrations to The Pilgrim's Progress
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Toward the end of his life, William Blake produced a beautiful sequence of 28 watercolor drawings to illustrate Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. These rarely seen drawings show him at the peak of his powers, radically reinterpreting one of the central texts of English literature. Gerda Norvig's book, with its stunning color reproductions, offers the first detailed study of these important works of art. Norvig sets the watercolors in the context of Blake's lifelong engagement with Bunyan's myth and in relation to the Puritan writer's own artistic and critical methods. She shows how deeply Blake's love-hate relationship with Bunyan influenced not only these particular drawings but also Blake's revolutionary theories of art and poetics. With judicious use of psychoanalytical and post-structuralist critical theory, she demonstrates that Blake's pictorial interpretation of The Pilgrim's Progress tells a contemporary, self-reflexive tale about interpretation. Blake implicates author, narrator, and reader in a dream-protagonist's never-ending search for a proper stance on the relations of self and other.
This title was originally published in 1993.
Toward the end of his life, William Blake produced a beautiful sequence of 28 watercolor drawings to illustrate Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. These rarely seen drawings show him at the peak of his powers, radically reinterpreting one of the central texts o
This title was originally published in 1993.
Toward the end of his life, William Blake produced a beautiful sequence of 28 watercolor drawings to illustrate Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. These rarely seen drawings show him at the peak of his powers, radically reinterpreting one of the central texts o
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- KEY TO REFERENCES
- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION ORIGINAL DERIVATION
- CHAPTER ONE INTERPRETATION AND DISSENT
- CHAPTER TWO BLAKE’S BUNYAN
- CHAPTER THREE THE NEXT ROOM OF THE DREAM
- APPENDIX A Influential Changes in the Established Iconography of Bunyan Illustrations
- APPENDIX B Five Popular Sets of Bunyan Illustrations
- NOTES
- WORKS CITED
- INDEX