"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.
Summary:
"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.
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