William blake and the myth of america: From the abolitionists to the counterculture
- Submitting institution
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University College London
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 15946
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198813279
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This 120,000-word book is the first full-scale monograph to tell the story of William Blake’s literary reception in America. It links high and low culture, and covers nearly two hundred years of poetry, music, fiction and theology, offering fresh close readings and juxtapositions. It involved research at the Swedenborgian Society archive in London and in the British Library newspaper records. It required extensive research into American culture and literature, exposing previously unknown examples of Blake's reception and mapping the personal and cultural networks which led to his enormous popularity.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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