Dark Figures in the Desired Country: Blake's Illustrations to the Pilgrim's Progress - Gerda S. Norvig - Hardcover

"Gerda Norvig has written a book on Blake's Bunyan illustrations that is much more than that: it revises our sense of Blake, of the relationship of illustrator to illustrated text, and the assumptions of Romantic and Romanticist writing. Blake, certainly, will not be the same after Norvig's vigorous analysis, and it is arguable that the same may be true of Romanticism."--Ronald Paulson, author ofFigure and Abstraction in Contemporary Painting "Specialists in both Blake studies and English Romanticism will find this book extremely interesting and useful. Norvig carefully analyzes for the first time a set of Blake's most accomplished illustrations, a set that (as she points out) has very rarely been reproduced or exhibited. These designs certainly deserve to be better known, and Norvig's insightful and stimulating interpretation of them makes their importance to Blake's thought and career amply clear. This is certainly a book that all Blake specialists will have to know."--Anne K. Mellor, author ofMary Shelley: Her Life, Her Fiction, Her MonstersNorvig, Gerda S. is the author of 'Dark Figures in the Desired Country: Blake's Illustrations to the Pilgrim's Progress - Gerda S. Norvig - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780520044715 and ISBN 0520044711.