William Blake on self and soul
By: Laura Quinney.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780674035249
Subjects: Blake, William, -- 1757-1827 -- Knowledge -- Psychology; Self in literature; Identity (Psychology) in literature; Subjectivity in literature
Description: "It has been clear form the beginning that William Blake was both a political radical and a radical psychologist, and in "William Blake on Self and Soul", Laura Quinney uses her sensitive, surprising readings of the poet to reveal his innovative ideas about the experience of subjectivity."--[book jacket].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the impossible self; title: pt. I Empiricism and despair; title: The sorrows of natural man; title: Wordsworth, Plato, and Blake; title: pt. II Theories of deliverance; title: The four Zoas: transcendental remorse; title: Milton: the guarded gates; title: Jerusalem: the will to solitude.