LEADER 04621nam 22007095 450 001 9910510539903321 005 20251204110033.0 010 $a9783030888886$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783030888879 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-88888-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6811006 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6811006 035 $a(CKB)19919350800041 035 $a(OCoLC)1287131206 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-88888-6 035 $a(EXLCZ)9919919350800041 100 $a20211123d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBlake and Lucretius $eThe Atomistic Materialism of the Selfhood /$fby Joshua Schouten de Jel 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (273 pages) 225 1 $aThe New Antiquity,$x2946-3025 311 08$aPrint version: Schouten de Jel, Joshua Blake and Lucretius Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2021 9783030888879 327 $aChapter 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. 330 $a?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. 410 0$aThe New Antiquity,$x2946-3025 606 $aPoetry 606 $aClassical literature 606 $aLiterature, Ancient 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y18th century 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aKnowledge, Theory of 606 $aPoetry and Poetics 606 $aClassical and Antique Literature 606 $aEighteenth-Century Literature 606 $aPhilosophy of Literature 606 $aEpistemology 615 0$aPoetry. 615 0$aClassical literature. 615 0$aLiterature, Ancient. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aKnowledge, Theory of. 615 14$aPoetry and Poetics. 615 24$aClassical and Antique Literature. 615 24$aEighteenth-Century Literature. 615 24$aPhilosophy of Literature. 615 24$aEpistemology. 676 $a809 676 $a821.7 700 $aSchouten de Jel$b Joshua$01068911 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910510539903321 996 $aBlake and Lucretius$92553859 997 $aUNINA