William Blake and the Visionary Law: Prophecy, Legislation and Constitution

by Matthew Mauger

Book Overview

This book examines the difficult relationship between individual intellectual freedom and the legal structures which govern human societies in William Blake's works, showing that this tension carries a political urgency that has not yet been recognised by scholars in the field. In doing so, it offers a new approach to Blake's corpus that builds on the literary and cultural historical work of recent decades. Blake's pronouncements about law may often...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031377222
• ISBN13: 9783031377228
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"