Reconstructing William Blake's Bible of Hell: Diabolical Inversion and Biblical Revision in the 1790-95 Illuminated Books

What did William Blake mean when he threatened the world with a “Bible of Hell” in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790)? A critical survey of the history of scholarship on the topic reveals a variety of unsupported Bible of Hell canon theories among 180 critics. The most plausible theory (though...

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Main Author: Smith, Jordan Rendell
Other Authors: Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). Theses (Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.))
Language:en
en
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1974/7358