Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law
by Thompson, E. P
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- ISBN 13
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New York: New Press, 1995. xxi, 234 pages, [20] pages of plates, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. "Witness Against the Beast is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study in which the renowned social historian E. P. Thompson contends that most of the assumptions scholars have made about William Blake are misleading and unfounded. Brilliantly reexamining Blake's cultural milieu and intellectual background, Thompson detects in Blake's poetry a repeated call to resist the usury and commercialism of the 'Antichrist' embodied by contemporary society--to 'witness against the beast'." - Publisher.. 1st. Paperback. Fine. 8vo.
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Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law is a 1993 book by the British historian E. P. Thompson in which Thompson contextualizes the work of the otherwise enigmatic poet and painter William Blake. The last book that Thompson would write, it was published posthumously. The book attempts to frame some of Blake's ideas in the traditions of the culture of religious dissent in England.
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- Title
- Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law
- Author
- Thompson, E. P
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1565840992
- ISBN 13
- 9781565840997
- Publisher
- New Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- European / British & Irish; European / 6. Neo-Classical & Romantic; Movements / Romanticism;
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