Collected Essays on William Blake and his Times

Joseph Viscomi

Blake as Printmaker

"Blake's Workshop." Studies in Romanticism 21 (Fall, 1982): 404-409.

"Forgery or Facsimile? An Examination of America copy B, plates 4 and 9." Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 16 (Spring, 1983): 217-223.

"Recreating Blake: the M.E.W. Blake Facsimiles." Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 19 (Summer, 1985): 4-23.

"Reading, Drawing, Seeing Illuminated Books." Approaches to Teaching William Blake's Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Eds. R. Gleckner and M. Greenberg. New York: MLA, 1989. 67-73.

"William Blake, Illuminated Books, and the Concept of Difference." Essays on Romanticism. Eds. Karl Kroeber and Gene Ruoff. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1993. 63-87.

"An Inquiry into William Blake's Method of Color Printing" (with Robert Essick). Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly (Winter 2001/02): 73-102.

"Blake's Method of Color Printing: Some Responses and Further Observations" (with Robert Essick). Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly (Fall 2002): 49-64.

ģIlluminated Printing.ī Cambridge Companion to William Blake. Ed. Morris Eaves. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 37-62.
 
 

Blake in the 19th-Century

"The Myth of Commissioned Illuminated Books: George Romney, Isaac D'Israeli, and `ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY designs . . . of Blake's'." Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 23 (Autumn, 1989): 48-74.

"A Breach in a City, the Morning After the Battle: Lost or Found?" Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly (Fall, 1994): 44-59.

"William Blake's 'The Phoenix / to Mrs. Butts' Redux." Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 29 (Summer, 1995): 12-15.

"Blake in the Marketplace 1852: Thomas Butts, Jr. and Other Unknown Nineteenth-century Blake Collectors." Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly (Fall, 1995): 40-69.

"A 'Green House' for Butts? New Information about Thomas Butts, His Residences, and Family." Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly (Summer, 1996): 4-21.

"Blake's Death" (with Dr. Lane Robson, MD). Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly (Fall, 1996): 36-49.

"The Evolution of William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" [Part I]. Huntington Library Quarterly 58.3&4 (1997): 281-344.

"Lessons of Swedenborg: or, the Origin of Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" [Part II. of The Evolution of William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell]. Lessons of Romanticism. Eds. Robert Gleckner and Thomas Pfau. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1998. 173-212.

"In the Caves of Heaven and Hell: Swedenborg and Printmaking in Blake's Marriage" [Part III of The Evolution of William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell]. Blake in the Nineties. Eds. Steven Clark and David Worrall. London: Macmillan, 1999. 27-60.

"Blake after Blake: A Nation Discovers Genius." Blake, Empire, and Nation. Eds. Steven Clarke and David Worrall. London: Palgrave, 2003.
 
 

The William Blake Archive

ģStandards, Methods, Objectives of the William Blake Archive: A Response to Mary Lynn Johnson, Andrew Cooper, and Michael Simpsonī (with Morris Eaves, Robert Essick, and Matthew Kirschenbaum). The Wordsworth Circle (Summer 1999): 135-144.

"The Persistence of Vision: Images and Imaging at the William Blake Archive" (with Morris Eaves, Robert Essick, and Matthew Kirschenbaum). RLG DigiNews 4.1 (February 2000) <http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews>

"Digital Facsimiles: Reading the William Blake Archive." Computers and Humanities 36.1 (2002): 27-48.

"The William Blake Archive: The Medium when the Millenium is the Message." (with Morris Eaves and Robert N. Essick).  Romanticism and Millenarianism. Ed.  Tim Fulford.  New York: Palgrave, 2002.  219-33.

"`Once Only Imagined': An Interview with Morris Eaves, Robert N. Essick, and Joseph Viscomi on the Past, Present, and Future of Blake Studies." Conducted by Kari Kraus. Romantic Circles  <http://www.rc.umd.edu/indexjava.html>
 
 

Review Essays

Martin Meisel, Realizations: Narrative, Pictorial, and Theatrical Arts in 19th c. England. Studies in Romanticism 25 (Winter, 1986): 561-567.

Robert N. Essick, The Separate Plates of William Blake, A Catalogue. The Wordsworth Circle (Fall, 1988): 212-218.

Morris Eaves, The Counter-Arts Conspiracy: Art and Industry in the Age of Blake. The Wordsworth Circle (Fall 1993): 205-210.
 
 

Reviews

Blake's Designs for Young's "Night Thoughts." (with Dennis Welch). Ed. Erdman et al. Philological Quarterly (Fall, 1982): 539-4.

Blake's Designs for Young's "Night Thoughts." Ed. Erdman et al. Fine Print (Spring, 1982): 49-50.

Selections from William Blake's Songs, an album by Gregory Forbes, and Companion to the New Musical Settings (with Margaret LaFrance). Blake/An Illustrated Quarterly 19 (Fall, 1985): 84-89.

Raymond Lister, Samuel Palmer: His Life and Art. Studies in Romanticism 30 (Summer 1991): 298-305.