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“... between text and contemporaneous events was over-literal (as well as hazardous), and Jon Mee is one of these. Mee’s contexts are less literal: they concern the characteristic rhetorics, preoccupations and discourses of the 1790s which relate to Blake’s concerns and which perhaps help us to understand ...”

“... again especially in the case of women, whose proneness to sexual overexcitement was notorious. Jon Mee, in Romanticism, Enthusiasm and Regulation,* has tracked this association, from Swift’s representation in A Tale of a Tub of a female preacher prophesying through her vagina – a reworking of an older image of the sibyl – to the opponents of ...”