Inventing Eden : primitivism, millennialism, and the making of New England /

'Inventing Eden' charts the ways in which colonial New England writers replaced their initial topographical optimism with an interest in recovering the somatic, intellectual, spiritual, and social perfections that Adam and Eve enjoyed in the biblical Garden. As they appropriated and adapte...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hutchins, Zachary McLeod (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Temas:
1600-1799
American literature > New England > History and criticism.
American literature > 17th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Eden in literature.
Littérature américaine > 17e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Éden dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature.
New England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Eden and intellectual history
  • Paradise explained : an Edenic primer
  • Promoting Paradise, ordering wilderness: topographical optimism meets agricultural reality
  • A body unembarrassed: humoral empowerment and Edenic temperance
  • Building Bensalem at Massachusetts Bay: the search for Solomon's Adamic wisdom
  • Translating Paradise: Hebrew, Herbert, Milton, Fox, and the pursuit of linguistic purity
  • From pilgrimage to new birth, Adam to Eve: the evolution of Edenic models for conversion
  • Life, liberty, and the pursuit of Eden: the architects, slave laborers, and master masons of Freedom's Temple
  • Epilogue: The Edenic inheritance.

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