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23 de may. de 2017 · Witness Against the Beast is Thompson's bits-and-pieces descent into the thickets of the intellectual underworld of the 1780s-1790s, and his golden thread is the attempt to prove that Blake was a Muggletonian (or influenced thereby) -- Muggletonians being one of a number of surviving ranters, quakers, millennialists, etc. from the explosion of radical apocalypticism during the 17th century ...
Witness Against the Beast es un innovador estudio interdisciplinar en el que el célebre historiador social E.P. Thompson sostiene que la mayoría de las suposiciones que los estudiosos han hecho sobre William Blake son erróneas e infundadas. Al reexaminar el entorno cultural y los antecedentes intelectuales de Blake, Thompson detecta en la poesía de Blake un llamamiento reiterado a resistir ...
13 de oct. de 1994 · Witness Against the Beast is Thompson's bits-and-pieces descent into the thickets of the intellectual underworld of the 1780s-1790s, and his golden thread is the attempt to prove that Blake was a Muggletonian (or influenced thereby) -- Muggletonians being one of a number of surviving ranters, quakers, millennialists, etc. from the explosion of radical apocalypticism during the 17th century ...
Witness against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law Paperback – Oct. 13 1994 by E. P. Thompson (Author), Christopher Hill (Foreword) 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
Witness Against the Beast is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study in which the renowned social historian E.P. Thompson contends that most of the assumptions scholars have made about William Blake are misleading and unfounded. Brilliantly reexamining Blake's cultural milieu and intellectual background, Thompson detects in Blake's poetry a repeated call to resist the usury and commercialism ...
24 de abr. de 2024 · Witness against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law By E P Thompson Cambridge University Press 280pp £17.95 . Lecturing in New York in 1968 the historian E P Thompson defined himself as a Muggletonian Marxist.
