William Blake and the Productions of Time

By Andrew M. Cooper

Challenging the idea that a writer's work reflects his experiences in time and place, Cooper locates the action of William Blake's major illuminated books in the ahistorical present, an impersonal spirit realm beyond the three-dimensional self. Historicist attempts to place Blake's vision in perspective, Cooper argues, involve a self-contradictory denial of his performativity as a poet-artist of multiple geometrical dimensions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409444414
• ISBN13: 9781409444411
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"