Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law

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 of the "Antichrist" embodied by contemporary society--to "witness against the beast."

Author: E. P. Thompson
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: New Press
Published: 01/01/1995
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 9.16h x 6.13w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9781565840997