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Index
Cover
Title page
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Abbreviations
Notes on Quotations
Preface
Introduction
Blakeanisms
Blake’s Theory of Art and Romantic Aesthetics
Religious Art in Blake’s Time
Blake’s Work as an Artist
Five Themes in Blake’s Religious Aesthetic
1. Regeneration: Resurrection and Apocalypse in Night Thoughts (1795–7)
Blake’s Night Thoughts
Resurrection and Apocalypse in Night Thoughts
Conclusion
2. Inspiration: Illumination and Prophecy in the Biblical Temperas (1799–1800)
The Butts Biblical Temperas
The Nativity Narratives in Blake’s Oeuvre
The Infancy of Christ in the Biblical Temperas
Conclusion
3. Facilitator: Ministry as Community-Building in the Biblical Watercolours (1800–6)
The Butts Biblical Watercolours
Conclusion
4. Eternal: Christ as Universal Human Form Divine (Works of 1805–c.1811)
Christ in Cosmic History in Paradise Lost
Emblems of Judgement
Icons of Divine Humanity
An Allegory of the Spiritual Condition of Man
Conclusion
5. Iconoclasm: Crucifixion as Self-Annihilation in Late Works (1804–27)
The Crucifixion in Art
The Crucifixion in Blake’s Oeuvre
Jerusalem 76 and Michael Foretells the Crucifixion
Envisioning the Crucifixion in Bunyan and Dante
Conclusion
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
eCopyright
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