Thomas Harris and William Blake : Allusions in the Hannibal Lecter Novels / Michelle Leigh Gompf.

Author/creator Gompf, Michelle Leigh, 1970- author.
Format Book
PublicationJefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
Description184 pages ; 23 cm
Subjects

Contents "Under every good is a hell": William Blake's view of good and evil -- "The wickedness herein I took from my own stock": Thomas Harris's creation of evil -- The dragon and the tyger: Red Dragon -- Typhoid and swans: Silence of the Lambs -- Harris's marriage of heaven and hell: Hannibal -- Printing in the infernal method: Hannibal Rising -- Conclusion: "Without contraries there is no progression": Lecter's Blakean progression to balance.
Abstract "This work examines the allusions to Blake throughout Harris's four Hannibal Lecter novels and provides a Blakean reading of the works as a whole, particularly in regard to the character of Lecter and the nature of evil in the world"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2013039050
ISBN9780786471010 (softcover : alk. paper)
ISBN0786471018 (softcover : alk. paper)