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Record Nr.

UNINA9910957965203321

Autore

Wright Julia M

Titolo

Blake, nationalism, and the politics of alienation / / Julia M. Wright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens, : Ohio University Press, c2004

ISBN

0-8214-4182-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Disciplina

821/.7

Soggetti

Nationalism and literature - Great Britain - History - 18th century

Nationalism and literature - Great Britain - History - 19th century

Political poetry, English - History and criticism

Alienation (Social psychology) in literature

Nationalism in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-223) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction / Nationality, Individuality, and Defamiliarization -- 1/The Line of Progress -- 2/"Whence Came They" -- 3/"How Different the World to Them" -- 4/"And None Shall Gather the Leaves" -- 5/"A State about to Be Created" -- 6/"Artfully Propagated" -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Despite his reputation as a staunch individualist and repeated attacks on institutions that constrain the individual's imagination, Julia Wright argues that William Blake rarely represents isolation positively and explores his concern with the kind of national community being established.