William Blake's Religious Vision: There's a Methodism in His Madness

by Jennifer Jesse

Book Overview

Analyzing Blake's works theologically through a wide-angled lens that encompasses the major religious movements he addressed in his art, Jesse concludes Blake was a theological moderate who defended an evangelical faith akin to the Methodism of John Wesley. She argues that, once we collate the different messages he constructed for each of his target audiences, we find him advocating a system that would have been recognized by his contemporaries as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1498511783
• ISBN13: 9781498511780
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"