Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law

New York: The New Press, 1993. Trade Paperback. Good. 6x0x9. Light stain along base, ink name on half-title page. 1993 Trade Paperback. xxi, 234 pp. Witness Against the Beast is a groundbreaking interdisciplinary study in which the renowned social historian E.P. Thompson contends that most of the assumptions scholars have made about William Blake are misleading and unfounded. Brilliantly reexamining Blake's cultural milieu and intellectual background, Thompson detects in Blake's poetry a repeated call to resist the usury and commercialism of the “Antichrist” embodied by contemporary society―to “witness against the beast.”