Witness against the Beast

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 an...

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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."

Foreword Christopher Hill
Introduction
Part I. Inheritance:
1. Works or faith?
2. Antinomianisms
3. The 'Ranting' impulse
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Foreword Christopher Hill
Introduction
Part I. Inheritance:
1. Works or faith?
2. Antinomianisms
3. The 'Ranting' impulse
4. The polite witness
5. Radical dissent
6. A peculiar people
7. Anti-hegemony
Appendix 1. The Muggletonian archive
Appendix 2. William Blake's mother
Part II. Human Images: Introduction
8. The new Jerusalem Church
9. 'The Divine Image'
10. From innocence to experience
11. 'London'
12. 'The Human Abstract'
13. Conclusion.
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