William Blake and Romantic Biology

Name: William Blake and Romantic Biology
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Evolution, Originality, and Organic Form

Tara Lee (The University of Hong Kong)

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English

Cambridge University Press
02 April 2026

Illustration; Poetry; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; Early man

Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism

Blake's unique pronouncements on spirituality and embodiment, revolutionary politics, sexuality and genius, as well as on textual and artistic reproduction, were formulated in opposition to the pre-Darwinian theories of evolution and self-organisation emerging over the course of the long eighteenth century. Over the last two decades, literary critics have uncovered the many ways in which discoveries in the life sciences led the Romantics to increasingly understand art and life in terms of matter's vibrant powers of self-organisation. Here, however, Tara Lee shows how Blake was influenced by a preformationist paradigm that privileged the unique kernel of identity in each being over material processes of change and development. Readers will leave this book with a greater appreciation for how Blake's works were in intimate dialogue with a range of intellectual discourses – political, theological, poetic, aesthetic – that were shaped by vibrant debates about embodiment and organic form.

By: Tara Lee (The University of Hong Kong)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Weight: 573g
ISBN: 9781009626453
ISBN 10: 1009626450
Series: Cambridge Studies in Romanticism
Pages: 284
Publication Date: 02 April 2026
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tara Lee is Assistant Professor in English Literary Studies at the University of Hong Kong. She received her DPhil in English Literature from Oxford University and was formerly a Research Assistant Professor in the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at HKU.