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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1. Verfasser: Hutchins, Zachary McLeod (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]
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Zusammenfassung:'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 adapted Old World beliefs about the primitive Eden and a coming millennial paradise to their New World surroundings over the first two centuries of European colonization in New England, Puritans and Quakers disciplined their physical and figurative bodies in an effort to reclaim a prelapsarian physiological temperance.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (x, 329 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-321) and index.
ISBN:9780199998159
0199998159
9780199382415
0199382417

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