362 Pages
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Routledge
362 Pages
by
Routledge
362 Pages
by
Routledge
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Challenging the idea that a writer’s work reflects his experiences in time and place, Andrew M. Cooper locates the action of William Blake’s major illuminated books in the ahistorical present, an impersonal spirit realm beyond the three-dimensional self. Blake, Cooper shows, was a formalist who exploited eighteenth-century scientific and philosophical research on vision, sense, and mind for... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Blake’s post-Enlightened anamnesis; Seeing voices in Songs of Innocence; The skewed empiricism of Blake’s early tractates; Common sense in Visions of the Daughters of Albion; Storytelling through the vortex of sense; Freedom from The Book of Urizen; The picture of the mind in ’the vision of the Last Judgment’; The physiology of vision in Milton; Conclusion: ’1804’; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Andrew M. Cooper recently retired as Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
A Yankee Book Peddler US Core Title for 2013 A Baker & Taylor Literary Essentials Title '... fascinating readings ... strikingly fresh interpretations ... Cooper's study is an impressively learned and rewarding read...' Review of English Studies
