Title: Blake, nation, and empire
Description: Blake, Nation and Empire challenges the orthodoxy of the politics of William Blake as exclusively radical, defined by his participation in the revolutionary ferment of the 1790s. It examines his work in the context of emergent discourses of nation and empire, and of the construction of a public sphere, and restores the longevity to his artistic career by placing particular emphasis on his output in the 1820s. Relevant contexts include technology, sentimentalism, Ireland and Catholic Emancipation, missionary prospectuses and body politics. Blake's work is shown not only to be complexly embedded in the culture of his time but also to prefigure and contest the imperial century of pax Britannica. This exciting and timely new volume brings together scholars at the forefront of Romantic and Blake studies, and helps further the interactions between the private vision and the public discourses of nation and empire.
Subjects: English Political poetry, History, Nationalism and literature, Nationalism in literature, Imperialism in literature, History and criticism, Political and social views, Blake, william, 1757-1827, English literature, history and criticism, 18th century, POETRY, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literature
Places: Great Britain
People: William Blake (1757-1827)
Time periods: 19th century, 18th century