INVENTING EDEN
Gewicht:
590 g
Format:
251x183x28 mm
Beschreibung:
Surveying English and colonial thinkers from William Shakespeare and John Milton to Anne Hutchinson and Benjamin Franklin, Inventing Eden tells how a belief in Eden shaped American literature, history, and culture.
Introduction ; Chapter 1 ; Paradise Explained: An Edenic Primer ; Chapter 2 ; Promoting Paradise, Ordering Wilderness: Topographical Dreams and Agricultural Realities in Colonial New England ; Chapter 3 ; A Body Unembarrassed: Humoral Empowerment and Edenic Temperance ; Chapter 4 ; Building Bensalem at Massachusetts Bay: The Search for Solomon's Adamic Wisdom ; Chapter 5 ; Translating Paradise: Hebrew, Herbert, Fox, and the Pursuit of Linguistic Purity ; Chapter 6 ; From Pilgrimage to New Birth, Adam to Eve: The Evolution of Edenic Models for Conversion ; Chapter 7 ; Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Eden: The Architects, Slave Laborers, and Master Masons of Freedom's Temple ; Epilogue ; The Edenic Inheritance ; Notes ; Index
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