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Blake and Kierkegaard - Creation and Anxiety (Hardcover, New)
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Blake and Kierkegaard - Creation and Anxiety (Hardcover, New)
Series: Continuum Literary Studies
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Apocalyptic nightmares that humanly-created intelligences will one
day rise up against their creators haunt the western creative
imagination. However, these narratives find their initial
expression not in the widely disseminated Frankenstein story but in
William Blake's early mythological works. This book looks at why we
persistently fear our own creations by examining Blake's
illuminated books of the 1790s through the lens of Kierkegaard's
theories of personality and of anxiety. It offers a close
examination of Kierkegaard's and Blake's similar, and to an extent
shared, historical milieux as residents of Denmark's and England's
political and economic centers. Each author's residence in a major
urban center motivated them to develop a concept of innocence
closely identified with the pastoral, and to place their respective
and similar concepts of innocence within a larger developmental
scheme encompassing an ethical and then a religious consciousness.
Rovira identifies contemporary tensions between monarchy and
democracy, science and religion, and nature and artifice as the
source both of Kierkegaard's concept of anxiety and Blake's
representation of creation anxiety in his early illuminated books.
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