ALEXANDER GILCHRIST AND THE INVENTION OF THE CHARACTER BLAKE
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https://doi.org/10.35355/revistafenix.v15i2.389Keywords:
Blake, Gilchrist, Biografia, Personagem, FontesAbstract
According to Dosse, the anecdotes and the interesting life facts of the subject of the biography are the main reasons for the reader's fascination, comparing the biographer to a portraitist, that “shapes” the image of the subject. Alexander Gilchrist, in the biography The Life of William Blake: Pictor Ignotus (1863), reveals a competent and serious artist, but at the same time an eccentric visionary that talked to spirits. Gilchrist's work was the first biography dedicated to William Blake and responsible for Blake's reception in the nineteenth century, being reference for all the studies on Blake ever since. However, as most of the works from its time, the biography does not indicate its sources. This study has as objective to trace, even if hypothetically, which authors were used as sources by Gilchrist, analyzing fourteen excerpts from William Blake's life, drawing comparisions between what Gilchrist wrote and the writings of five authors that preceded him: Benjamin Heath Malkin (1806), Henry Crabb Robinson (1810), Frederick Tatham (1828), J. T. Smith (1829) e Alan Cunningham (1830).
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