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Witness Against the Beast Hardback - 1993

by E. P. Thompson; Foreword by Christopher Hill

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E. P. Thompson's long-awaited book on William Blake was published shortly after the historian's death in August 1993. Acclaimed as one of his best and most deeply felt works, it appears now for the first time in paperback. Written with a vivid passion, and bearing the marks of Thompson's lifelong struggle against authoritarian and anti-humanitarian politics both at the level of the individual and of the state, Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law is a profound enquiry into the structure of Blake's thought and the character of his sensibility. Its qualities are among those which place Thompson himself in the same tradition of dissenting values and non-conforming radicalism represented by Blake some two hundred years earlier.

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  • Title Witness Against the Beast
  • Author E. P. Thompson; Foreword by Christopher Hill
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 284
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Publication date 1993-11-01
  • ISBN 9780521225151 / 0521225159
  • Weight 1.12 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.75 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.91 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress subjects Ethics in literature, Radicalism in literature
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 92047286
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.7
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1993. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical Description: xxi, 234 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Part I. Inheritance -- 1. Works or faith? -- 2. Antinomianisms -- 3. The ""ranting"" impulse -- 4. The polite witness -- 5. Radical dissent -- 6. A peculiar people -- 7. Anti-hegemony -- Appendix 1. The Muggletonian archive -- Appendix 2. William Blake's mother -- Part II. Human images -- Introductory -- 8. The New Jerusalem Church -- 9. ""The divine image"" -- 10. From innocence to experience -- 11. ""London"" -- 12. ""The human abstract"" -- 13. Conclusion. Subjects: Blake, William 1757-182; Political and social views; Religion; Ethics; Religion Criticism and interpretation; History and criticism; Dissenters, Religious England History 18th… Read more
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