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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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Blake, Nation and Empire
• Author: D. Worrall, S. Clark
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 263
• EAN: 9780333993149
• ISBN: 0333993144
• ID: 04601202
• Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
• Weight: 460 g
• Dimensions: 134 × 223 × 20 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. September 2006

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