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William Blake’s Comic Vision
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Blake's comic brilliance has been variously dismissed as the nervous ramblings of a neglected genius, the tomfool doodles of a distracted youngster, or a crude tool for destabilizing textual authority. But, for the eighteenth century, comedy played a pivotal role in debates on aesthetics, education, spirituality and morality. This exciting new study blends a close reading of Blake's early work with fascinating historical research to demonstrate that the comic was an essential component of Blake's artistic Vision.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Songs of Pleasant Glee: William Blake and the Comic
- 2 Mirth at the errors of a foe: the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Comic World
- 3 Playing the Fool: Blake’s Sense of Humour
- 4 ‘I love the jocund dance’: The Comic in the Poetical Sketches and Tiriel
- 5 Talking of Virtuous Cats: An Island in the Moon
- 6 To sing the sweet chorus of ‘Ha, Ha, He’: The Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience
- 7 A Vision of the Last Judgment: The Comic in Blake’s Designs
- 8 And to conclude: A fool sees not the same tree a wise man sees
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index