Witness Against the Beast

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Witness Against the Beast is written by E. P. Thompson and published by The New Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 162097214X (ISBN 10) and 9781620972144 (ISBN 13).

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.”