Soul, seed, species: William Blake and the language of preformationist biology
<p>This thesis discusses how Blake transformed biological images of birth and regeneration into complex symbols of spiritual, political, and artistic rebirth. Situating Blake against key developments in the eighteenth-century life sciences, it finds Blake resisting evolutionary materialism an...
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Language: | English |
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2022
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