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William Blake and the myth of America : from the abolitionists to the counterculture / Linda Freedman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freedman, Linda, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Blake, William, 1757-1827--Criticism and interpretation.
- Blake, William.
- Antislavery movements in literature.
- Politics in literature.
- American literature--18th century--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- United States--In literature.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- This work tells the story of William Blake's literary reception in America from the Abolitionists to the counterculture and argues that Blake's poetry has been crucial to America's sense of itself as a mythic and prophetic nation and its struggle with the ironies of new world symbolism as a land of the free and a site of possibility and redemption.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-254277-X
- 0-19-185126-4
- 0-19-254276-1
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