‘In Infernal Love and Faith’: William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
The satirical The Marriage of Heaven and Hell has long been recognised as a key work in William Blake's literary production. Yet the precise nature of his theological dispute with the mystic philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg in this text has never been fully explained. Reinserting Blake's lit...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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Literature and theology
Year: 2006, Volume: 20, Issue: 2, Pages: 107-125 |
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| Summary: | The satirical The Marriage of Heaven and Hell has long been recognised as a key work in William Blake's literary production. Yet the precise nature of his theological dispute with the mystic philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg in this text has never been fully explained. Reinserting Blake's literary work into its original Swedenborgian context reveals it as a vivacious manifesto of antinomian theology. By examining Blake's parody of central Swedenborgian passages, it is possible to shed new light on the little understood inversion of ‘devils’ and ‘angels’, which has long frustrated analyses of the text. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frl014 |