William Blake's Religious Vision: There's a Methodism in His Madness

William Blake's Religious Vision: There's a Methodism in His Madness
ISBN-10
0739177915
ISBN-13
9780739177914
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
312
Language
English
Published
2013-02-14
Publisher
Lexington Books
Author
Jennifer Jesse

Description

Analyzing Blake’s works theologically through a wide-angled lens that encompasses the major religious movements he addressed in his art, Jesse concludes Blake was a theological moderate who defended an evangelical faith akin to the Methodism of John Wesley. She argues that, once we collate the different messages he constructed for each of his target audiences, we find him advocating a system that would have been recognized by his contemporaries as Wesleyan in character.

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