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1 de nov. de 1993 · 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 ...
23 de may. de 2017 · 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 ...
Cambridge University Press & Assessment 978-0-521-46977-7 — Witness against the Beast E. P. Thompson , Foreword by Christopher Hill Frontmatter
In "Human Images," the penultimate chapter of Witness Against the Beast, the authors juxtaposed with Blake are Gibbon (especially chapters 20 and 49 of Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire) and Constantin de Volney. Although Blake, unlik e Byron, did not sympathize with Gibbon's sap-ping a solemn creed with solemn sneer, he did read the
1 de ene. de 1995 · 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 ...
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 ...
1. E. P. Thompson : Witness against the Beast. William Blake and the Moral Law. Cambridge University Press et New York, The New Press, 1993, xxi + 234 p. Voici le dernier livre écrit avant sa mort, l'été dernier, par l'un des plus grands historiens anglais de ce demi-siècle. Depuis son magistral ouvrage sur La Formation de la classe ...
