Blake and Conflict

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.

'...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

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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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Contents List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on the Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction; J.Mee and S.Haggarty Blake and the Ontology of Empire; S.Makdisi 'A wise tale of the Mahometans': Blake and Islam, 1819-26; A.Whitehead Blake, the Female Prophet, and the American Agent: The Evidence of the 1789 Swedenborg Conference Attendance List; D.Worrall Impurity of Diction: The 'Harlots Curse' and Dirty Words; S.Matthews 'She cuts his heart out at his side': Blake, Christianity, and Political Virtue; D.Fallon From Donation to Demand? Almsgiving and the 'Annotations to Thornton'; S.Haggarty 'A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Action': Mutuality, Converse, and Mental Fight; J.Mee Shadows in the Cave: Refocusing Vision in Blake's Creation Myth; S.Erle A Minute Skirmish: Blake, Hayley, and the Art of Miniature Painting; M.Crosby Blake and the Literary Galleries; L.Calè Blake's Poems on Art and Artists; M.D.Paley Index