William Blake and the Myths of Britain is the first full-length study of Blake's use of British mythology and history. From Atlantis to the Deists of the Napoleonic Wars, this book addresses why the eighteenth century saw a revival of interest in the legends of the British Isles and how Blake applied these in his extraordinary prophetic histories of the giant Albion, revitalising myths of the Druids and Joseph of Arimathea bringing Christ to Albion.

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Falmouth College of Arts, England

Jason Whittaker

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Jason Whittaker is Lecturer in English with Media Studies at Falmouth College of Arts.

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Book Title: William Blake and the Myths of Britain
Authors: Jason Whittaker
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230372108
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1999
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-73896-2Published: 03 June 1999
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37210-8Published: 03 June 1999
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 215
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Sociology, general

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: the Matter of Britain

Origins

The Voice of the Bard

Druids, Deism and Patriarchy

The Monuments of Albion

Visions of History

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