Cooper A Bastard Kind of Reasoning

William Blake and Geometry
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9323-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

Ranges widely and deeply across William Blake's oeuvre to show how his post-Newtonian vision of space-time anticipates Einsteinian relativity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooper, Andrew M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Geometry and Blake’s Newton Print

1. “Oh, but you’re just analogizing.”

2. Learning to Read in a Force Field: Songs of Innocence, Hartleyan Psychology, and the Physics of R. J. Boscovich

3. The Book of Urizen as a Vortex of Perception

4. A Brief Particular History of the Fourth Dimension of Space, with Special Reference to Milton: A Poem

5. The Neoplatonism of Blake’s Mundane Soul

6. Berkeley: Very Close, but No Cigar

Conclusion: The Unified Space-Time of The Vision of the Last Judgment
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Now retired, Andrew M. Cooper previously taught in the Department of English at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of William Blake and the Productions of Time and Doubt and Identity in Romantic Poetry.