Against Self-Organization: Redefining Vitality with William Blake in Jerusalem and The Four Zoas

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STUDIES IN ROMANTICISM Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI:10.1353/srm.2022.0027

Tara Lee

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Abstract:At the heart of the eighteenth-century life sciences lay the debate between preformation and epigenesis, two competing theories of generation. This article argues that Blake, incorporating opposing scientific theories into one mythological framework, drew heavily on preformationist ideas and imagery to contrast the eternal forms of spiritual life against material, autopoietic semblances of vitality. For Blake, life was characterised not by generative plasticity but by our inexhaustible capacity for regeneration and rebirth. Ultimately, this article not only situates Blake within a rich tradition of preformationist ideas, but also attempts to re-evaluate contemporary assumptions concerning the Romantic conception of life.

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反对自我组织:重新定义活力与威廉布莱克在耶路撒冷和四个琐亚斯

摘要：18世纪生命科学的核心是预形成和表生之间的争论，这两种相互竞争的生成理论。这篇文章认为，布莱克将对立的科学理论整合到一个神话框架中，在很大程度上借鉴了格式主义的思想和意象，将精神生活的永恒形式与物质的、自我生成的生命力表面进行了对比。对布莱克来说，生命的特征不是生成的可塑性，而是我们取之不尽、用之不竭的再生和再生能力。最终，本文不仅将布莱克置于一个丰富的预设主义思想传统中，而且试图重新评估当代关于浪漫主义人生观的假设。

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期刊介绍： Studies in Romanticism was founded in 1961 by David Bonnell Green at a time when it was still possible to wonder whether "romanticism" was a term worth theorizing (as Morse Peckham deliberated in the first essay of the first number). It seemed that it was, and, ever since, SiR (as it is known to abbreviation) has flourished under a fine succession of editors: Edwin Silverman, W. H. Stevenson, Charles Stone III, Michael Cooke, Morton Palet, and (continuously since 1978) David Wagenknecht. There are other fine journals in which scholars of romanticism feel it necessary to appear - and over the years there are a few important scholars of the period who have not been represented there by important work.