Titlebook: William Blake and the Visionary Law; Prophecy, Legislatio Matthew Mauger Book 2023 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under e

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pus directly addresses and is informed by eighteenth-centuryThis book examines the difficult relationship between individual intellectual freedom and the legal structures which govern human societies in William Blake’s works, showing that this tension carries a political urgency that has not yet bee

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Introduction, a protected space within which humanity can be nurtured and renewed. Law was at the heart of contemporary discussions concerning sovereignty, nationhood, and the relationship between the individual and the state. While we cannot know precisely the contexts in which Blake was exposed to these debate

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One Law for the Lion and the Ox is Oppression: The Emergence of Universal Law,or the Lion and the Ox’ to ‘oppression’. This chapter charts law’s emergence in Blake’s work, and the arrival of a lawmaker creator at the heart of his nascent mythology. Legal texts and those who write them are visible in Blake’s earliest writing, materialising in . in the person of ‘Steelyard the

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Such are the Laws of Eternity: Recovery, Redemption, and Prophecy,mental reconfiguration of his ideas about law. Indeed, it is in Blake’s first completed epic .—a poem shot through with evidence of the poet’s pain and distress in response to his own encounter with law and legal process in his arrest and trial of 1803–1804—that he proposes a dynamic, visionary acco

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Book 2023 Blake’s works, showing that this tension carries a political urgency that has not yet been recognised by scholars in the field. In doing so, it offers a new approach to Blake’s corpus that builds on the literary and cultural historical work of recent decades. Blake’s pronouncements about law may of