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Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law is a 1993 book by the British historian E. P. Thompson in which Thompson contextualizes the work of the otherwise enigmatic poet and painter William Blake.
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15 de ago. de 2022 · Witness against the beast : William Blake and the moral law. by. Thompson, E. P. (Edward Palmer), 1924-1993. Publication date. 1993. Topics. Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Political and social views, Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Religion, Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Ethics, Blake, William, 1757-1827, Blake, William 1757-1827, Blake ...
Written with a vivid passion, and bearing the marks of Thompson's lifelong struggle against authoritarian and anti-humanitarian politics both at the level of the individual and of the state, Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law is a profound enquiry into the structure of Blake's thought and the character of his sensibility.
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E. P. Thompson, Witness Against The Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law. New York: The New Press. 1993. xxi + 234 pp. with 20 illus. $30.00. Reviewed by Morton D. Paley. Many of us can remember when the antinomian tradition was treated with undisguised scorn by literary historians.
Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law. E. P. Thompson. Cambridge University Press, Oct 13, 1994 - Biography & Autobiography - 234 pages. E. P. Thompson's long-awaited book on...
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1 de nov. de 1993 · Witness Against the Beast is Thompson's bits-and-pieces descent into the thickets of the intellectual underworld of the 1780s-1790s, and his golden thread is the attempt to prove that Blake was a Muggletonian (or influenced thereby) -- Muggletonians being one of a number of surviving ranters, quakers, millennialists, etc. from the ...
Description. Contents. Resources. Courses. About the Authors. E. P. Thompson's long-awaited book on William Blake was published shortly after the historian's death in August 1993. Acclaimed as one of his best and most deeply felt works, it appears now for the first time in paperback.
