Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s

by Jon Mee

Book Overview

William Blake's work presents a stern challenge to historical criticism. Jon Mee's study meets that challenge by investigating contexts outside the domain of standard literary histories. He traces the distinctive rhetoric of the illuminated books to the French Revolution controversy of the 1790s and Blake's fusion of the diverse currents of radicalism abroad in that decade. Dangerous Enthusiasm presents a more comprehensively politicized picture of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198183291
• ISBN13: 9780198183297
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"