Blake and Kierkegaard: Creation and Anxiety (Continuum Literary Studies)

by JamesRovira (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2011

  $48.24

  This study applies Kierkegaardian anxiety to Blake's creation myths to explain how Romantic era creation narratives are a reaction to Enlightenment models of personality.

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $211.69

  Apocalyptic nightmares that humanly-created intelligences will one day rise up against their creators haunt the western creative imagination. This study applies Kierkegaard's Concept of Anxiety to Blake's creation myths to explain how Enlightenment personality conceptions created fear of independently thinking beings.