Blake, Myth, and Enlightenment: The Politics of Apotheosis
- Submitting institution
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University of Sunderland
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 1090
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- ISBN
- 9781137390356
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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http://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/7033/
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- Based on a doctoral thesis, this book is a meticulously detailed new reading of William Blake’s poetry and art, including the first sustained account of his visionary paintings of Pitt and Nelson. It focuses on the recurrent motif of apotheosis, both as a figure of political authority to be demystified but also as an image of utopian possibility. The book re-evaluates Blake’s relationship to Enlightenment thought, myth, religion, and politics. It combines careful attention to cultural and historical contexts with close readings of texts and designs, providing an innovative account of Blake’s creative transformations of Enlightenment, classical, and Christian thought.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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