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William Blake and the Cultures of Radical Christianity (Hardcover, New Ed)
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William Blake and the Cultures of Radical Christianity (Hardcover, New Ed)
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This study traces the links between William Blake's ideas and
radical Christian cultures in late eighteenth-century England.
Drawing on a significant number of historical sources, Robert W.
Rix examines how Blake and his contemporaries re-appropriated the
sources they read within new cultural and political frameworks. By
unravelling their strategies, the book opens up a new perspective
on what has often been seen as Blake's individual and idiosyncratic
ideas. We are also presented with the first comprehensive study of
Blake's reception of Swedenborgianism. At the time Blake took an
interest in Emanuel Swedenborg, the mystical and spiritual writings
of the theosophist had become a platform for radical and
revolutionary politics, as well as numerous heterodox practices,
among his followers in England. Rix focuses on Swedenborgianism as
a concrete and identifiable sub-culture from which a number of
essential themes in Blake's works are reassessed. This book will
appeal not only to Blake scholars, but to anyone studying the
radical and sub- culture, religious, intellectual and cultural
history of this period.
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