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William Blake’s Comic Vision

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  • © 2003

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  1. Nick Rawlinson
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Songs of Pleasant Glee: William Blake and the Comic

    • Nick Rawlinson
    Pages 1-18

  3. Mirth at the errors of a foe: the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Comic World

    • Nick Rawlinson
    Pages 19-49

  4. Playing the Fool: Blake’s Sense of Humour

    • Nick Rawlinson
    Pages 50-66

  5. ‘I love the jocund dance’: The Comic in the Poetical Sketches and Tiriel

    • Nick Rawlinson
    Pages 67-97

  6. Talking of Virtuous Cats: An Island in the Moon

    • Nick Rawlinson
    Pages 98-162

  7. To sing the sweet chorus of ‘Ha, Ha, He’: The Songs of Innocence and of Experience

    • Nick Rawlinson
    Pages 163-192

  8. A Vision of the Last Judgment: The Comic in Blake’s Designs

    • Nick Rawlinson
    Pages 193-214

  9. And to conclude: A fool sees not the same tree a wise man sees

    • Nick Rawlinson
    Pages 215-225

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 226-292
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About this book

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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Nick Rawlinson is Lecturer in English at Queen Mary and Westfield College at the University of London.

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