Blake and the city

by Michael, Jennifer Davis

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Title Statements

Full title :Blake and the city / Jennifer Davis Michael.

Summary

"Though usually classified as a Romantic, Blake subverts and dissolves the binaries on which Romanticism turns: self and other, art and nature, country and city. Rather than reject city outright like many of his contemporaries, Blake embraces it as the intricate workshop of human imagination. Each chapter of this book focuses on a specific text of Blake's that illustrates a particular conception of metaphorical embodiment of the city. These shifting metaphors emphasize the construction of all human environments and the need for imaginative labor to build and interpret them. This study seeks to bridge a gap between "transcendent" and "historicist" readings of Blake while at the same time challenging assumptions that still color our view of the city in the twenty-first century."--Pub. desc.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2006.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Bucknell University Press
Place of Publication:Lewisburg
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2006.

The Physical Object

Description:235 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0838756468, 9780838756461, 0838756522, 9780838756522
oclc:ocm67773739
LC Classification:PR4147
Dewey Decimal:821/.7

Introduction: on Blake, the city, and romanticism -- Word and image in the urban pastoral: Songs of innocence and of experience -- Prophetic labor and creation of space: Lambeth and The four Zoas -- The city as body: Milton -- The city as text: Jerusalem.

Subjects

Blake, William City and town life in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc England Lieu (Philosophie) dans la littérature Place (Philosophy) in literature Romanticism Romanticism -- England Romantisme -- Angleterre Stadt Vie urbaine dans la littérature