Blake and Conflict

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   • Jon Mee, Sarah Haggarty

   Pages 1-11

3. Blake and the Ontology of Empire

   • Saree Makdisi

   Pages 12-26

4. ‘A wise tale of the Mahometans’: Blake and Islam, 1819–26

   • Angus Whitehead

   Pages 27-47

5. Blake, the Female Prophet and the American Agent: The Evidence of the 1789 Swedenborg Conference Attendance List

   • David Worrall

   Pages 48-64

6. Impurity of Diction: The ‘Harlots Curse’ and Dirty Words

   • Susan Matthews

   Pages 65-83

7. ‘She Cuts his Heart Out at his Side’: Blake, Christianity and Political Virtue

   • David Fallon

   Pages 84-104

8. From Donation to Demand? Almsgiving and the ‘Annotations to Thornton’

   • Sarah Haggarty

   Pages 105-125

9. ‘A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Action’: Mutuality, Converse and Mental Fight

   • Jon Mee

   Pages 126-143

10. Shadows in the Cave: Refocusing Vision in Blake’s Creation Myth

    • Sibylle Erle

    Pages 144-163

11. A Minute Skirmish: Blake, Hayley and the Art of Miniature Painting

    • Mark Crosby

    Pages 164-184

12. Blake and the Literary Galleries

    • Luisa Calè

    Pages 185-209

13. Blake’s Poems on Art and Artists

    • Morton D. Paley

    Pages 210-227

14. Back Matter

    Pages 229-235

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Famously, Blake believed that 'without contraries' there could be no 'progression'. Conflict was integral to his artistic vision, and his style, but it had more to do with critical engagement than any urge to victory. The essays in this volume look at conflict as it marked Blake's thinking on politics, religion and the visual arts.

• America
• Christianity
• dance
• empire
• essay
• knowledge
• miniature
• notation
• ontology
• painting
• poem
• religion
• style
• visual arts
• William Blake
• British and Irish Literature

'...Blake and Conflict illuminates hosts of both expected and unexpected tussles, and while some ruffians will have hoped for a splash more blood on the carpet, its charming editors won't at all mind that objection' - British Association for Romantic Studies

'...one essay can't do everything, and this one does a great deal both to extend knowledge of Blake's intellectual and historical contexts and in the polemical essays, to sustain an ongoing debate over his complicity with or defiance of ideologies of oppression.' - Blake/ An Illustrated Quarterly

'Mee and Haggarty have provided a substantial addition to Palgrave Macmillan's impressive and ongoing Blake list...' -European Romantic Review

• University College, Oxford, UK

  Sarah Haggarty

• University of Warwick, UK

  Jon Mee

LUISA CALÈ is Lecturer in the School of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London, UK MARK CROSBY teaches at Oxford and Durham, UK SIBYLLE ERLE is Visiting Junior Research Fellow, University of London, UK, and Senior Lecturer in English, Bishop Grosseteste University College, Lincoln, UK DAVID FALLON is a Research Assistant at Warwick University, UK SAREE MAKDISI is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA, USA SUSAN MATTHEWS is Senior Lecturer in English at Roehampton University, UK MORTON D. PALEY is Emeritus Professor of English at University of California, Berkeley, USA ANGUS WHITEHEAD is an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore DAVID WORRALL is Professor of English and Research Leader in English at Nottingham Trent University, UK

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