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Saree Makdisi. William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790's.(Book Review)
From: Studies in Romanticism
Date: 20040622
Author:Wagenknecht, David
Saree Makdisi. William Blake and the Impossible History of the 1790's. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002. Pp. xviii+392. $22.00 paper.
Saree Makdisi repeatedly quotes a remark in Blake's letter of 12 April 1827 to George Cumberland ("But since the French Revolution Englishmen are all intermeasurable by one another: certainly a happy state of agreement, in which I for one do not agree"), and quite correctly sees its implication that the whole modern political and ideological orientation we think of as "liberal democracy" is manifestly not something Blake ...
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