Blake, Myth, and Enlightenment

David Fallon is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Sunderland, UK. From 2009-12 he was a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford. He has published on Blake and on eighteenth-century and Romantic-period booksellers, and co-edited Romanticism and Revolution: A Reader (2011) with Jon Mee.

• Introduction: ‘A saint amongst the infidels & a heretic with the orthodox’.- 1. ‘The deep indelible stain’: Apotheosis in the Eighteenth Century.- 2. ‘Spirits of fire’: Ambiguous Figures in The French Revolution.- 3. ‘Breathing! Awakening!’: Contesting and Transforming Apotheosis in America a Prophecy.- 4. ‘The night of holy shadows’: Europe and Loyalist Reaction.- 5. ‘Serpentine dissimulation’: Apotheosis in Urizen, Ahania and The Song of Los.- 6. ‘The Name of the Wicked Shall Rot’: Blake’s Oriental Apotheoses of Nelson and Pitt.- 7.Transforming Apotheosis in The Four Zoas and Milton.- 8. ‘Ever expanding in the bosom of God’: Deification and Apotheosis in Jerusalem.- Conclusion.- Notes.-Bibliography.- Index.-