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...
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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
Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-176) and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Blake and Kierkegaard: Shared Contexts; 2 Blake, Kierkegaard, and the Socratic Tradition; 3 Blake, Kierkegaard, and the Classical Model of Personality; 4 Innocence, Generation, and the Fall in Blake and Kierkegaard; 5 Creation Anxiety and The [First] Book of Urizen; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
