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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 1790's 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

Literature --- Anxiety in literature. --- Littérature --- Angoisse dans la littérature --- Philosophy. --- Philosophie --- Blake, William, --- Kierkegaard, Sren, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Blake, William, --1757-1827 --Criticism and interpretation. --- Creation in literature. --- Kierkegaard, Søren, --1813-1855. --- Literature --Philosophy. --- Creation in literature --- Anxiety in literature --- English --- English Literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Philosophy --- Kierkegaard, Søren, --- Littérature --- Angoisse dans la littérature --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Theory --- Anti-Climacus, --- Bogbinder, Hilarius, --- Chʻi-kʻo-kuo, --- Climacus, Johannes, --- Constantius, Constantin, --- Eremita, Victor, --- Haufniensis, Vigilius, --- Johannes, Climacus, --- Johannes de Silentio, --- Kʹerkegor, Seren, --- Kierkegaard, S. --- Kierkegaard, Severino, --- Kierkegaard, Søren Aabye, --- Kierkegaard, Søren --- K'i︠e︡rkegor, Sʹoren, --- Kīrkajūrd, Sūrīn, --- Kirkegaard, Soeren, --- Kirkegor, Seren, --- Ḳirḳegor, Sern, --- Kirkegors, Sērens, --- Kirukegōru, Søren, --- Kjerkegor, Seren, --- Kʻo-erh-kʻai-ko-erh, --- Notabene, Nicolaus, --- Silentio, Johannes de, --- Sūrīn Kīrkajūrd, --- Victor, Eremita, --- Vigilius, Haufniensis, --- קירקגור, סרן --- קירקגור, סורן --- קירקגור, סירן --- קירקגור, סירן, --- קירקגורד, סרן, --- 克尓凯郭尓, --- Blake, W. --- Bleĭk, Uilʹi︠a︡m, --- בליק, ויליאם --- בלייק, ויליאם --- בליק, ויליאם, --- בלייק, ויליאם, --- Anti-climacus --- H. H. --- Блейк, Уильям, --- Blake, William --- Blake, William, 1757-1827