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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-uthonors12929966352021-08-03T06:16:30Z Burning Sensations: How the Devils in William Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell Illustrate the Creation of New Texts Mooney, Joshua Critics approaching Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790?) have often described the Devils appearing in the work to be creatures that exemplify creative energy. This creative energy is seen by David V. Erdman as part of Blake’s revolutionary sympathies and by Northrop Frye as part of a mythical representation of actively procreative forces. I wish to explore how the Devils seen in MHH function as exemplary of a relation between existing texts such as those of the Bible or “Swedenborg’s volumes” (MHH 19) and the minds of those who are inspired to create new works from them. The Devils featured throughout MHH do not exist merely to destroy or negate existing texts in order to make way for new ones, nor do they wish to subjugate the minds of those who adhere to such documents to a status beneath that of themselves. Rather, the Devils enact their fiery energies upon religious texts or minds, altering them in an act of renewal that does not destroy but empowers the mind or text, treating it as if it were a medium for creating new art. I explore various examples of this devilish energy as illustrating of a creative vision that involves a dynamic relationship between a text and the human mind’s experience of it. In particular, I focus on how this type of vision is illustrated on plates four, six, seven, twenty-one, and twenty-two through twenty-four. I argue the Devils in MHH are personifications of creative energy that represents an idealistic merging of mind and text in imagination. 2010 English text University of Toledo Honors Theses / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors1292996635 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=uthonors1292996635 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.
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Burning Sensations: How the Devils in William Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell Illustrate the Creation of New Texts
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Burning Sensations: How the Devils in William Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell Illustrate the Creation of New Texts
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Burning Sensations: How the Devils in William Blake’s Marriage of Heaven and Hell Illustrate the Creation of New Texts
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