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William Blake's Visions

Art, Hallucinations, Synaesthesia

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  • Jun 2024

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Authors:
  1. David Worrall

    1. Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom

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  • Sets out the status of the critical reception of Blake’s visions
  • Incorporates scientific research on synaesthesia
  • Brings together neuroscience with literary criticism

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Keywords

  • British and Irish Literature
  • Literature, Science and Medicine Studies
  • William Blake
  • Synaesthesia
  • visual art
  • poetry and poetics

About this book

This book is an inquiry into whether what Blake called his ‘visions’ can be attributed to recognizable perceptual phenomena. The conditions identified include visual hallucinations (some derived from migraine aura), and auditory and visual hallucinations derived from several types of synaesthesia. Over a long period of time, Blake has been celebrated as a ‘visionary,’ yet his ‘visions’ have not been discussed. Worrall draws on an understanding of neuroscience to examine both Blake’s visual art and writings, and discusses the lack of evidence pointing towards psychosis or pathological ill-health, thus questioning the rumours pertaining to Blake’s insanity.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom

    David Worrall

About the author

David Worrall is Emeritus Professor of English at Nottingham Trent University. He has published widely on both William Blake and Eighteenth-Century Theatre.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: William Blake's Visions

  • Book Subtitle: Art, Hallucinations, Synaesthesia

  • Authors: David Worrall

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53253-5Due: 08 July 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-53256-6Due: 08 July 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-53254-2Due: 08 July 2024

  • Series ISSN: 2634-6435

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-6443

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 289

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