William Blake and the Myth of America: From the Abolitionists to the Counterculture

ISBN-13: 9780198813279 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 288 str.

Linda Freedman

Opis

Tells the story of William Blake's literary reception in America from the Abolitionists to the counterculture and argues that Blake's poetry has been crucial to America's sense of itself as a mythic and prophetic nation and its struggle with the ironies of new world symbolism as a land of the free and a site of possibility and redemption.

Recenzje

We seem to be living in a golden age of scholarship on Blake's reception, and Linda Freedman's William Blake and the Myth of America is a welcome addition to this critical canon. Luke Walker, Blake Quarterly

O autorze

Linda Freedman is a Lecturer in English and American literature at University College London. She is the author of Emily Dickinson and the Religious Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and has published widely on nineteenth and twentieth century literature. Her work explores the relationship between literature, theology, and the visual arts; transatlantic connections; and the afterlife of Romanticism.