Blake and Conflict

Famously, Blake believed that "without contraries" there could be no "progression." Conflict was integral to his artistic vision, and his style, but it had more to do with critical engagement than any urge to victory. The essays in this volume look at conflict as it marked Blake's thinking on politics, religion and the visual arts.

SARAH HAGGARTY is Janice Scott Junior Research Fellow in English at University College, Oxford, UK. JON MEE is Professor of Romanticism Studies at the University of Warwick, UK. His other works include Dangerous Enthusiasm: William Blake and the Culture of Radicalism in the 1790s. He is currently a Philip J. Leverhulme Major Research Fellow working on the idea of conversation in the Romantic period.

List of IIIustrations	p. vii
List of Abbreviations	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Notes on the Contributors	p. xi
Introducton	p. 1
Blake and the Ontology of Empire	p. 12
'A wise table of the Mahometans': Blake and Islam, 1819-26	p. 27
Blake, the Female Prophet and the American Agent: The Evidence of the 1789 Swedenborg Conference Attendance List	p. 48
Impurity of Diction: The 'Harlots Curse' and Dirty Words	p. 65
'She Cuts his Heart Out at his Side': Blake, Christianity and Political Virtue	p. 84
From Donation to Demand? Almsgiving and the 'Annotations to Thornton'	p. 105
'A Little Less Conversation, A Little More Action': Mutuality, Converse and Mental Fight	p. 126
Shadows in the Cave: Refocusing Vision in Blake's Creation Myth	p. 144
A Minute Skirmish: Blake, Harley and the Art of Miniature Painting	p. 164
Blake and the Literary Galleries	p. 185
Blake's Poems on Art and Artists	p. 210
Index	p. 229
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