Dark Figures in the Desired Country: Blake's Illustrations to the Pilgrim's Progress

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993. First ed., first printing (full number line). xxxii, 327 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations (some color); 26 cm Binding is mildly shaken and rolled yet still tight, else very good(-) in a very good(-) jacket now in archival mylar. Hardcover. ISBN: 9780520044715, 0520044711

Contents: Introduction: Original Derivation. The Drawings. Critical Methodology. Blake and Critical Psychology. Ch. 1. Interpretation and Dissent. Hermeneutics and the Revisionary Imagination. Bunyan, Blake, and the Tradition of Dissent. Ch. 2. Blake's Bunyan. Interpreting the Interpreter's Parlor: Methodical Parody, Prophetic Critique. Emblem and Allegory: Blake's Use of Bunyan Before 1800. The Personal Reference: Bunyan, Christian, Cowper, Rose, and Hayley's Anxious Enthusiast. Bunyan's Vision and Blake's Doctrine of States. The Pilgrimage as Dream. Ch. 3. The Next Room of the Dream. The Tradition of Bunyan Illustration. A Reading of Blake's Pilgrim's Progress Designs. App. A. Influential Changes in the Established Iconography of Bunyan Illustrations. App. B. Five Popular Sets of Bunyan Illustrations Before Blake's: 1685-1788.