Witness Against the Beast
William Blake and the Moral Law
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Poetry History & Criticism
| Author: | E. P. Thompson | ISBN: | 9781620972144 |
| Publisher: | The New Press | Publication: | May 23, 2017 |
| Imprint: | The New Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | E. P. Thompson |
| ISBN: | 9781620972144 |
| Publisher: | The New Press |
| Publication: | May 23, 2017 |
| Imprint: | The New Press |
| Language: | English |
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.”
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.”
