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 century; Didactic poetry, English History and criticism; Radicalism England; Ethics, Modern 18th century; Radicalism in literature; Ethics in literature; England; English poetry; Literature; Literary Studies; Critical Studies.

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Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law is a 1993 book by the British historian E. P. Thompson in which Thompson contextualizes the work of the otherwise enigmatic poet and painter William Blake. The last book that Thompson would write, it was published posthumously. The book attempts to frame some of Blake's ideas in the traditions of the culture of religious dissent in England.

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Bookseller: MW Books Ltd. (IE)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 389273
Title: Witness against the beast : William Blake and the moral law
Author: Thompson, E. P. (1924-1993)
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st edition
ISBN 10: 0521225159
ISBN 13: 9780521225151
Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication: Cambridge
Date Published: 1993

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