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Radical Blake Also by Jason Whittaker WILLIAM BLAKE AND THE MYTHS OF BRITAIN Radical Blake Influence and Afterlife from 1827 Shirley Dent and Jason Whittaker © Shirley Dent and Jason Whittaker 2002 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2002 978-0-333-98645-5 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T 4LP. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2002 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS and 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010 Companies and representatives throughout the world PALGRAVE MACMILLAN is the global academic imprint of the Palgrave Macmillan division of St. Martin’s Press, LLC and of Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. Macmillan® is a registered trademark in the United States, United Kingdom and other countries. Palgrave is a registered trademark in the European Union and other countries. ISBN 978-1-349-43109-0 ISBN 978-0-230-28740-2 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230287402 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dent, Shirley, 1970– Radical Blake: afterlife and influence from 1827 / Shirley Dent and Jason Whittaker. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. 1. Blake, William, 1757–1827--Influence. 2. Blake, William, 1757–1827--Political and social views. 3. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) 4. Radicalism in literature. 5. Radicalism in mass media. 6. Radicalism in art. I. Whittaker, Jason, 1969– II. Title. PR4148.I52 D46 2002 821’.7—dc21 2002072348 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 For Nathan, Sam and our parents This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgements viii Key to Abbreviations ix List of Plates xi Introduction: Radical Blake 1 1 Visionary Blake 11 2 Metropolitan Blake 44 3 Blake and Nationalism 67 4 Blake, Emancipation and America 96 5 Blake and Women 120 6 Blake and Blasphemy 143 7 Hacking Blake 169 Conclusion 195 Notes 198 Select Bibliography 217 Index 229 vii Acknowledgements We would particularly like to thank David Worrall and Steve Clark for the help and advice that they have given at various stages in the life of this book. Thanks are also due to Rebecca Mashayekh at Palgrave for her guidance during the production of Radical Blake, as well as to Eleanor Birne and Lucy Qureshi who responded to our original proposal with enthusiasm. Parts of this book have developed out of research undertaken at the University of Warwick: colleagues we would like to thank there include Anne Janowitz, Malcolm Hardman and Michael Bell. Support was also provided by the Falmouth College of Arts Research Fund. We have both given papers at the Blake Society, and would like to thank members for their insight and knowledge, particularly Keri Davies who, as a testimony to his work on Blake, has greatly influenced the ways in which we look at Blake’s books. Papers given at the ‘Blake and the Book’ conference at Strawberry Hill in 1998 and ‘Friendly Enemies: Blake and the Enlightenment’ at the University of Essex in 2000 resulted in helpful comments from G. E. Bentley and Joseph Viscomi, which have proved extremely useful. Other colleagues and friends have kindly lent books, made sugges- tions, read drafts and suffered our zeal with patience, including Mark Douglas, Maria Magro, Clarissa Smith, Alex Goody, Catherine Spooner, Jim Hall, Jayne Armstrong, Wiesiek ‘Prof’ Powaga, Jim Herrick, John Metcalf, Emma Mason, Grainne Walsh, Chloe Peacock, Ruth Saxton, Janine Wignarajah, Chris Clark, James Hopkin, Duncan Yeates, Andrew Marshall, Katie Bailey and Justine Brian. Finally, thanks are due to both sets of parents who have given time and time again in too many ways to mention. We would also like to thank the visual experts in our lives whose ‘altering eyes have altered all’: Sam and Nathan. viii Key to Abbreviations All quotations from Blake’s writings follow The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, revised edition, edited by David V. Erdman (New York: Anchor Books, 1988). These are identified in the text as ‘E’, followed by page number. Abbreviations to Blake’s works A America DC Descriptive Catalogue E Europe FZ Four Zoas J Jerusalem M Milton MHH The Marriage of Heaven and Hell PA A Public Address Songs Songs of Innocence and of Experience Urizen The [First] Book of Urizen VDA Visions of the Daughters of Albion Abbreviations to other works Anathemata David Jones, The Anathemata Anne Gilchrist Anne Gilchrist, Anne Gilchrist: Her Life and Writings AS Algernon Charles Swinburne, William Blake: A Critical Essay Autobiographies Kathleen Raine, Autobiographies BAV Special issue of Blake Newsletter on Blake and the Victorians (BAV), 8: 1–2 (1974) BB G. E. Bentley, Jnr., Blake Books BIQ Blake: An Illustrated Quarterly Blake/Shelley James Thomson, Shelley, a poem: with other writings relating to Shelley, by the late James Thomson (B.V.) to which is added an essay on the poems of William Blake, by the same author BR G. E. Bentley, Jnr., Blake Records Broadway Ballads William James Linton, Broadway Ballads Collected Poems Allen Ginsberg, Collected Poems 1947–1985 ix
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