Dangerous Enthusiasm considers Blake's prophetic books written
during the 1790s in the light of the French Revolution controversy
raging at the time; his works are shown to be less the expressions
of isolated genius than the products of a complex response to the
cultural politics of his contemporaries. William Blake's work
presents a stern challenge to historical criticism. Jon Mee's new
study meets the challenge by investigating contexts outside the
domains of standard literary histories. He traces the distinctive
rhetoric of the illuminated books to the French Revolution
controversy of the 1790s and Blake's fusion of the diverse currents
of radicalism abroad in that decade. The study is supported by a
wealth of original research which will be of interest to historians
and literary critics alike. Blake emerges from these pages as a
'bricoleur' who fused the language of London's popular dissenting
culture with the more sceptical radicalism of the Enlightenment.
Dangerous Enthusiasm presents a more comprehensively politicized
picture of Blake than any previous study.
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