Author: Joseph FrostPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hymns, English
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Divine Songs of the Muggletonians
Author: Joseph FrostPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hymns, English
Languages : en
Pages : 662
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Witness Against the Beast
Author: E. P. ThompsonPublisher: The New Press
ISBN: 162097214X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
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.”
William Blake's Religious Vision
Author: Jennifer G. JessePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0739177907
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
In this innovative study, Jesse challenges the prevailing view of Blake as an antinomian and describes him as a theological moderate who defended an evangelical faith akin to the Methodism of John Wesley. She arrives at this conclusion by contextualizing Blake's works not only within Methodism, but in relation to other religious groups he addressed in his art, including the Established Church, deism, and radical religions. Further, she analyzes his works by sorting out the theological "road signs" he directed to each audience. This approach reveals Blake engaging each faction through its most prized beliefs, manipulating its own doctrines through visual and verbal guide-posts designed to communicate specifically with that group. She argues that, once we collate Blake's messages to his intended audiences--sounding radical to the conservatives and conservative to the radicals--we find him advocating a system that would have been recognized by his contemporaries as Wesleyan in orientation. This thesis also relies on an accurate understanding of eighteenth-century Methodism: Jesse underscores the empirical rationalism pervading Wesley's theology, highlighting differences between Methodism as practiced and as publicly caricatured. Undergirding this project is Jesse's call for more rigorous attention to the dramatic character of Blake's works. She notes that scholars still typically use phrases like "Blake says" or "Blake believes," followed by some claim made by a Blakean character, without negotiating the complex narrative dynamics that might enable us to understand the rhetorical purposes of that statement, as heard by Blake's respective audiences. Jesse maintains we must expect to find reflections in Blake's works of all the theologies he engaged. The question is: what was he doing with them, and why? In order to divine what Blake meant to communicate, we must explore how those he targeted would have perceived his arguments. Jesse concludes that by analyzing the dramatic character of Blake's works theologically through this wide-angled, audience-oriented approach, we see him orchestrating a grand rapprochement of the extreme theologies of his day into a unified vision that integrates faith and reason.
Divine Songs of the Muggletonians
Author: Joseph FrostPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hymns, English
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The Musical Myths and Facts (Vol. 1&2)
Author: Carl EngelPublisher: e-artnow
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
"Musical Myths and Facts" in 2 volumes is one of the best-known works by a German author Carl Engel. Volume 1: A Musical Library Elsass-Lothringen Music and Ethnology Collections of Musical Instruments Musical Myths and Folk-lore The Studies of our Great Composers Superstitions concerning Bells Curiosities in Musical Literature The English Instrumentalists Musical Fairies and their Kinsfolk Sacred Songs of Christian Sects… Volume 2: Mattheson on Handel Diabolic Music Royal Musicians Composers and Practical Men Music and Medicine Popular Stories with Musical Traditions Dramatic Music of Uncivilized Races A Short Survey of the History of Music Chronology of the History of Music The Musical Scales in Use at the Present Day...
Anarchist Seeds beneath the Snow
Author: David GoodwayPublisher: PM Press
ISBN: 1604866675
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
From William Morris to Oscar Wilde to George Orwell, left-libertarian thought has long been an important but neglected part of British cultural and political history. In Anarchist Seeds beneath the Snow, David Goodway seeks to recover and revitalize that indigenous anarchist tradition. This book succeeds as simultaneously a cultural history of left-libertarian thought in Britain and a demonstration of the applicability of that history to current politics. Goodway argues that a recovered anarchist tradition could—and should—be a touchstone for contemporary political radicals. Moving seamlessly from Aldous Huxley and Colin Ward to the war in Iraq, this challenging volume will energize leftist movements throughout the world.
The Acts of the Witnesses
Author: T. L. UnderwoodPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019535298X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
This book presents writings produced by the Muggletonians---an unusual seventeenth-century English sect founded in 1652 by John Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton. The volume draws on documents from a recently discovered Muggleton archive and rare seventeenth-century tracts. Among those included are Muggleton's autobiography, excerpts from works co-written by Muggleton and Reeve, letters, songs (including ones composed to celebrate Muggleton's release from prison), and miscellany.
The Nineteenth Century
Author: Bibliotheca Anti-quakeriana
Author: Joseph SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quakers
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Author: Joseph Smith