Blake and conflict
By: edited by Sarah Haggarty and Jon Mee.
Contributors: Haggarty, Sarah.; Mee, Jon.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780230573871
Subjects: Blake, William, -- 1757-1827 -- Political and social views; Blake, William, -- 1757-1827 -- Religion; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 18th century; Literature and society -- England -- History -- 19th century; Art and literature -- England -- History -- 18th century; Art and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century; Social problems in literature; Politics in literature; Theology in literature
Description: "'Without contraries is no progression' wrote Blake in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Although he is often regarded as an otherworldly mystic, Blake was profoundly interested in the philosophical and political issues of his time. Accused by his contemporaries of an 'unbending deportment', he often acted on his sense of 'Opposition' as 'true Friendship'. Conflict was integral to Blake's artistic vision, and his style, but it had more to do with critical engagement than any urge to victory. The essays in this volume examine conflict as it marked Blake's thinking on politics, religion and the visual arts across the span of his career."--Jacket.
Notes: "The present volume grew out of a two-day 'Blake and Conflict' conference held at  University College, Oxford, in September 2006"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Jon Mee and Sarah Haggarty; title: Blake and the ontology of empire /; title: Saree Makdisi; title: 'A wise tale of the Mahometans': Blake and Islam, 1819-26 / Angus Whitehead; title: Blake, the female prophet, and the American agent: the evidence of the 1789 Swedenborg Conference attendance list / David Worrall; title: Impurity of diction: the 'harlots curse' and dirty words / Susan Matthews; title: 'She cuts his heart out at his side': Blake, Christianity, and political virtue / David Fallon; title: From donation to demand? almsgiving and the 'Annotations to Thornton' / Sarah Haggarty; title: 'A little less conversation, a little more action': mutuality, converse, and mental fight / Jon Mee; title: Shadows in the cave: refocusing vision in Blake's creation myth / Sibylle Erle; title: A minute skirmish: Blake, Hayley, and the art of miniature painting / Mark Crosby; title: Blake and the literary galleries / Luisa Calè; title: Blake's poems on art and artists / Morton D. Paley.