5. America: New Expanses

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface vii
3. A Note on the First Illustration xi
4. Contents xv
5. List of Illustrations xvii
6. List of Figures xxii
7. Key to References xxiii
8. 1. Apprenticeship at the Haymarket? 1
9. 2. The French Revolution: Revelation’s New Form 30
10. 3. Blake’s Composite Art 57
11. 4. Blake and the Sister-Arts Tradition 82
12. 5. America: New Expanses 92
13. 6. Europe: “to those ychain’d in sleep” 115
14. 7. Urizen: The Symmetry of Fear 146
15. 8. Blake’s Use of Gesture 174
16. 9. Songs of Innocence and of Experience: The Thrust of Design 196
17. 10. The Presence of Cupid and Psyche 214
18. 11. Blake and Urizen 244
19. 12. Ore as a Fiery Paradigm of Poetic Torsion 263
20. 13. Metamorphoses of a Favorite Cat 285
21. 14. Envisioning the First Night Thoughts 304
22. 15. Text and Design in Illustrations of the Book of Job 336
23. 16. Epic Irony in Milton 359
24. 17. The Formal Art of The Four Zoas 373
25. 18. Narrative Structure and the Antithetical Vision of Jerusalem 391
26. 19. Blake’s Cities: Romantic Forms of Urban Renewal 413
27. 20. “Forms Eternal Exist For-ever”: The Covenant of the Harvest in Blake’s Prophetic Poems 443
28. Index 465
29. Plates 477