HISTORY 1A03- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 68 pages long!)
13 Oct 2017
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William blake: major themes, pathos and tragedy. The young chimney sweeper: religion, morals and spirituality. Religion seen as a privilege and as a tool to produce quiescence. Not for the poor or the minority. The role of exposure: pastoral imagery. Songs: for children often asked to memorized them. Used largely in sunday schools for working class children. Easily memorable verses that would instruct children in piety, Taking something that is reportedly natural/self evident and turning it into controversy/scandal. Songs offer something seemingly digestible blake makes it a contest of defining the moral. Songs are a deliberate engagement directed to those in innocence. Tries to make songs into an act of pedagogy which has to be engaged. In order to get away from cretinism/indoctrination/rope moralism, what needs to displaced is a system which operates by prohibition, prescription and nay-saying (example: garden of love)
