Inventing Eden : primitivism, millennialism, and the making of New England
Title:
Inventing Eden : primitivism, millennialism, and the making of New England
Author:
Hutchins, Zachary McLeod, author.
ISBN:
9780199998159
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 329 pages) : illustrations.
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
'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.
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