English Fiction & Prose Literature - General & Miscellaneous - Literary Criticism, English Poetry - 18th Century - Literary Criticism, Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Romanticism - Literary Movements, Philosophy & Literature
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Overview
About the Author:
Jennifer Davis Michael is Associate Professor of English at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee
Synopsis
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 the 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. Jennifer Davis Michael is Associate Professor of English at the University of the South.Book Details
Published
January 1, 2007
Publisher
Bucknell University Press
Pages
240
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780838756461