5. Paradise Lost, from the Sublime to the Ridiculous

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Part One. Prints, Parody, and the Political Public
5. 1. The Literariness of Graphic Satire 3
6. 2. Looking, Literacy, and the Printshop Window 40
7. Part Two. Plotting Politics
8. 3. The Tempest; or, The Disenchanted Island 71
9. 4. Macbeth as Political Comedy 101
10. 5. Paradise Lost, from the Sublime to the Ridiculous 140
11. 6. Gulliver Goes to War 181
12. 7. Harlequin Napoleon; or, What Literature Isn’t 210
13. Appendix. Dramatis Personae 249
14. Notes 253
15. Acknowledgments 287
16. Index 289