Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral LawThe New Press, 23 mag 2017 Witness Against the Beast is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study in which the renowned social historian E.P. Thompson contends that most of the assumptions scholars have made about William Blake are misleading and unfounded. Brilliantly reexamining Blake's cultural milieu and intellectual background, Thompson detects in Blake's poetry a repeated call to resist the usury and commercialism of the “Antichrist” embodied by contemporary society—to “witness against the beast.” |
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Witness against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law E. P. Thompson Anteprima non disponibile - 1993 |
Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law E. P. Thompson Anteprima non disponibile - 1994 |
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