This monograph reorients discussion of Blake’s prophetic mode, revealing it to be not a system in any formal sense, but a dynamic, human response to an era of momentous historical change when the future Blake had foreseen and the reality he was faced with could not be reconciled. At every stage, Blake’s writing confronts the central problem of all politically minded literature: how texts can become action. Yet he presents us with no single or, indeed, conclusive answer to th...
Innehållsförteckning
1 Introduction: Prophetic Failure.- 2 Calling All Prophets.- 3 Prophetic Action.- 4 The Origins of Loss.- 5 Delusive Visions.- 6 Prophet of Eternity.- 7 Conclus...
Om författaren
Lucy Cogan is Lecturer in Eighteenth-Century and Romantic Literature at University College Dublin, Ireland. Her research is focused on the intersection of gender,...