William Blake on self and soul /
Quinney, Laura.
William Blake on self and soul / Laura Quinney. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2009. - xvii, 195 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-187) and index.
Introduction: the impossible self -- Empiricism and despair -- Wordsworth, Plato, and Blake -- The four Zoas: transcendental remorse -- Milton: the guarded gates -- Jerusalem: the will to solitude.
"It has been clear from the beginning that William Blake was both a political radical and a radical psychologist, and in "William Blake on Self and Soul", Laura Quinney uses her sensitive, surprising readings of the poet to reveal his innovative ideas about the experience of subjectivity."--[book jacket]
0674035240 9780674035249
2009011507
GBA9A4056 bnb
015402507 Uk
Blake, William, 1757-1827 --Knowledge--Psychology.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Self in literature.
Subjectivity in literature.
William Blake on self and soul / Laura Quinney. - Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, c2009. - xvii, 195 p. ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-187) and index.
Introduction: the impossible self -- Empiricism and despair -- Wordsworth, Plato, and Blake -- The four Zoas: transcendental remorse -- Milton: the guarded gates -- Jerusalem: the will to solitude.
"It has been clear from the beginning that William Blake was both a political radical and a radical psychologist, and in "William Blake on Self and Soul", Laura Quinney uses her sensitive, surprising readings of the poet to reveal his innovative ideas about the experience of subjectivity."--[book jacket]
0674035240 9780674035249
2009011507
GBA9A4056 bnb
015402507 Uk
Blake, William, 1757-1827 --Knowledge--Psychology.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Self in literature.
Subjectivity in literature.