Dark Figures in the Desired Country: : Blake's Illustrations to The Pilgrims Progress

Dark Figures in the Desired Country: : Blake's Illustrations to The Pilgrims Progress

Blake, William, 1757-1827 -- Criticism and interpretation
Bunyan, John, 1628-1688. Pilgrim's progress -- Illustrations
Christian fiction, English -- Illustrations

Gerda S. Norvig

Berkeley : University of California Press

Introduction: Original Derivation -- The Drawings -- Critical Methodology -- Blake and Critical Psychology -- Ch. 1. Interpretation and Dissent -- Hermeneutics and the Revisionary Imagination -- Bunyan, Blake, and the Tradition of Dissent -- Ch. 2. Blake's Bunyan -- Interpreting the Interpreter's Parlor: Methodical Parody, Prophetic Critique -- Emblem and Allegory: Blake's Use of Bunyan Before 1800 -- The Personal Reference: Bunyan, Christian, Cowper, Rose, and Hayley's Anxious Enthusiast -- Bunyan's Vision and Blake's Doctrine of States -- The Pilgrimage as Dream -- Ch. 3. The Next Room of the Dream -- The Tradition of Bunyan Illustration -- A Reading of Blake's Pilgrim's Progress Designs -- App. A. Influential Changes in the Established Iconography of Bunyan Illustrations -- App. B. Five Popular Sets of Bunyan Illustrations Before Blake's: 1685-1788.

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