Sarah Haggarty, Jon A Mee

William Blake - Songs of Innocence and of Experience (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This indispensable Guide maps out the daunting critical terrain surrounding Blake's most widely-studied text. It introduces students to the earliest reactions to 'Songs' during Blake's lifetime, explores his gathering reputation in the nineteenth century, and examines critical approaches to the work in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks UK
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137382450
• Artikelnr.: 62944538

Autorenporträt

Sarah Haggarty is University Lecturer in English and Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

AcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction: 'Piping Down the Valleys
Wild'
1. Producing 'Songs': 'In a Book that All May Read'
2. Blake's Contemporaries on 'Songs': Simplicity, Madness, Genius and
Swedenborgianism
3. Reviving Blake in the 1820s and 1830s: Obituaries, Biographies and the
First New Editions
4. Enshrining Blake in the 1860s and 1870s: Pre-Raphaelitism, Aestheticism
and Counter-Attack
5. Blake and the Moderns: Symbolism and Scholarship
6. The Post-War Foundations: System, Myth and History
7. Freedom and Repression in the 1960s and 1970s: Form, Ideology and Gender
8. Blake's Composite Art in the 1980s and 1990s: Textuality and the
Materiality of the Book
9. Worlding Blake Today: 'Past, Present and Future Sees'
Notes
Bibliography
Index.