Document Type

Book Review

Publication Title

Huntington Library Quarterly

Publisher

University of California Press

Publication Date

Fall 1991

Volume

54

Issue

4

Disciplines

Arts and Humanities | English Language and Literature

Abstract

Review by James C. McKusick. William Blake and the Language of Adam is a welcome addition to our knowledge of the Romantic preoccupation with the mystery of linguistic origins, and it seems destined to become a model of bold, incisive, and carefully researched scholarly analysis of literary and artistic creation from a broad interdisciplinary perspective. Essick's impeccable command of Blake's poetry and visual art is complemented by an extensive knowledge of the history of linguistics and an open-minded (yet critical) understanding of current issues in semiotics, phenomenology, and post-structuralist literary theory. William Blake and the Language of Adam provides an important addition to our knowledge of Blake's linguistic practice and offers a provocative challenge to the widespread post-structuralist conception of language as a differential system.

DOI

10.2307/3817856

Comments

Electronic version available from JSTOR.

Rights

©1991 University of California Press

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