04599nam 22007095 450 991051053990332120231110134300.09783030888886(electronic bk.)978303088887910.1007/978-3-030-88888-6(MiAaPQ)EBC6811006(Au-PeEL)EBL6811006(CKB)19919350800041(OCoLC)1287131206(DE-He213)978-3-030-88888-6(EXLCZ)991991935080004120211123d2021 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBlake and Lucretius The Atomistic Materialism of the Selfhood /by Joshua Schouten de Jel1st ed. 2021.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2021.1 online resource (273 pages)The New Antiquity,2946-3025Print version: Schouten de Jel, Joshua Blake and Lucretius Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2021 9783030888879 Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Epicurean and Lucretian Slur: Francis Bacon -- Chapter 3: The Epicurean and Lucretian Slur: Isaac Newton -- Chapter 4: Simulacra and the Selfhood -- Chapter 5: Urizenic Phantasiae -- Chapter 6: The Cosmic Chains of the Machina Mundi."Blake and Lucretius: The Atomistic Materialism of the Selfhood belongs both to the new field of Romanticism and Science and to an older current of esoteric source studies in Blake. Schouten de Jel argues that a number of interconnected patterns of imagery by which the poet delineates the fallen world and its deficits, are drawn from Epicurean and Lucretian tradition, much of it as adopted or reshaped in European intellectual history of the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. The book is a treasure-trove of scholarship. It both demonstrates the systematicity and consistency of Blake's imagery and illuminates it, making us see familiar language in a novel and enriching context. Blake's rocks, watches, revolutions and sunflowers take on a new saliency and a new halo of associations." -Laura Quinney, Professor of English, Brandeis University, USA This book demonstrates the way in which William Blake aligned his idiosyncratic concept of the Selfhood - the lens through which the despiritualised subject beholds the material world - with the atomistic materialism of the Epicurean school as it was transmitted through the first-century BC Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius' De Rerum Natura. By addressing this philosophical debt, this study sets out a threefold re-evaluation of Blake's work: to clarify the classical stream of Blake's philosophical heritage through Lucretius; to return Blake to his historical moment, a thirty-year period from 1790 to 1820 which has been described as the second Lucretian moment in England; and to employ a new exegetical model for understanding the phenomenological parameters and epistemological frameworks of Blake's mythopoeia. Accordingly, it is revealed that Blake was not only aware of classical atomistic cosmogony and sense-based epistemology but that he systematically mapped postlapsarian existence onto an Epicurean framework. Joshua Schouten de Jel is a recent doctoral graduate from the University of Plymouth, UK. He is the author of articles on William Blake, Mary Shelley, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.The New Antiquity,2946-3025PoetryClassical literatureLiterature, AncientLiterature, Modern18th centuryLiteraturePhilosophyKnowledge, Theory ofPoetry and PoeticsClassical and Antique LiteratureEighteenth-Century LiteraturePhilosophy of LiteratureEpistemologyPoetry.Classical literature.Literature, Ancient.Literature, ModernLiteraturePhilosophy.Knowledge, Theory of.Poetry and Poetics.Classical and Antique Literature.Eighteenth-Century Literature.Philosophy of Literature.Epistemology.809821.7Schouten de Jel Joshua1068911MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910510539903321Blake and Lucretius2553859UNINA01404oas 2200469 c 450 991050850810332120251105213014.02695-634910.15366/bibliotecababel(OCoLC)1287144941(CONSER) 2022237453(CKB)4100000012152205(EXLCZ)99410000001215220520211123a20199999 oy spaurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierBiblioteca de Babelrevista de filología hispánicaMadridDepartamento de Filología Española de la UAM2019-1 online resourceRefereed/Peer-reviewedBiblioteca de BabelSpanish philologyPeriodicalsPhilologie espagnole(CaQQLa)201-0042553Périodiques(CaQQLa)201-0378307Filología españolaabneSpanish philologyfast(OCoLC)fst01128644RevistasabnePeriodicalsfastSpanish philologyPhilologie espagnoleFilología españolaSpanish philologySFBSFBCUVOCLCQJOURNAL9910508508103321Biblioteca de Babel2451368UNINA