William Blake As Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795

William Blake as Natural Philosopher, 1788-1795 takes seriously William Blake's wish to be read as a natural philosopher, particularly in his early illuminated works, and reveals the way that poetry and visual art were for Blake an imaginative way of philosophizing.

List of contents

List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "We Who Are Philosophers": Blake's Early Metaphysics; Chapter One A Sense of the Infinite: Leibniz, Hume and Panpsychism in the Early Tractates; Chapter Two Soul Matter: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Monist Pantheism; Chapter Three Breathing Dust: Erasmus Darwin and Blake's Regenerative Materialism; Chapter Four "Horrible Forms of Deformity": The Urizen Cycle and Vitalist Materialism; Coda: The Ghost of Pantheism; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Joseph Fletcher is Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he also serves as Managing Editor of the William Blake Archive.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph Fletcher
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781785279515
• ISBN: 978-1-78527-951-5
• No. of pages: 274
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, Poetry by individual poets, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Literature: history and criticism, Literary studies: poetry and poets