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Angela Esterhammer, Victoria College, University of Toronto
Nelson Hilton, University of Georgia
Tilar J. Mazzeo, Colby College
Robert W. Rix,  University of Copenhagen
Joseph Viscomi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David Worrall, The Nottingham Trent University

Martin Butlin, Tate Gallery, London, retired
Tristanne J. Connolly, University of Waterloo
Detlef W. Dörrbecker, University of Trier
Sibylle Erle, University of Lincoln
Robert N. Essick, University of California, Riverside

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VOLUME 58 NUMBER 2  FALL 2024

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Cover:  Adapted detail of Blake’s frontispiece (after Fuseli) to J. C. Lavater, Aphorisms on Man (1788). Huntington Library, San Marino, 

California, call no. 57431 (Blake’s copy). Image courtesy of the William Blake Archive.

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Article

The Ambiguities of Translation: Fuseli, Blake, and the Making 
of Aphorisms on Man
By Sarah Carter

Reviews

Andrew M. Cooper, A Bastard Kind of Reasoning: William 
Blake and Geometry
Reviewed by Sharon Choe

Matthew Leporati, Romantic Epics and the Mission of Empire  
Reviewed by Jason Whittaker

Matthew Mauger, William Blake and the Visionary Law: 
Prophecy, Legislation and Constitution
Reviewed by David Worrall