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Blake and the Failure of Prophecy
Language: en
Pages: 231
Authors: Lucy Cogan
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-05-24 - Publisher: Springer Nature

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This monograph reorients discussion of Blake’s prophetic mode, revealing it to be not a system in any formal sense, but a dynamic, human response to an era of
Speech Acts in Blake’s Milton
Language: en
Pages: 128
Authors: Brian Russell Graham
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-11-16 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Using a framework based on J. L. Austin’s understanding of performative speech and Angela Esterhammer’s work on how things are done with words in Milton’s
Romantic Prophecy and the Resistance to Historicism
Language: en
Pages: 286
Authors: Christopher M. Bundock
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Romantic writers invoked prophecy throughout their work. However, the failure of prophecy to materialize didn't deter them. Why then do Romantic writers repeate
William Blake’s Divine Love
Language: en
Pages: 280
Authors: Joshua Schouten de Jel
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-03-15 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Despite the fact that William Blake summarises the plot of Visions of the Daughters of Albion (1793) in just eight lines in the prefatory ‘Argument,’ there
William Blake and the Visionary Law
Language: en
Pages: 239
Authors: Matthew Mauger
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-10-15 - Publisher: Springer Nature

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This book examines the difficult relationship between individual intellectual freedom and the legal structures which govern human societies in William Blake’s