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Hutchins, Zachary McLeod.

Inventing Eden : primitivism, millennialism, and the making of New England Zachary McLeod Hutchins. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2014. - x, 329 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-321) and index.

Paradise explained : an Edenic primer -- Promoting Paradise, ordering wilderness: topographical dreams and agricultural realities in colonial New England -- A body unembarrassed : humoral empowerment and Edenic temperance -- Building Bensalem at Massachusetts Bay : the search for Solomon's wisdom -- Translating Paradise : Hebrew, Herbert, 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.

ISBN: 9780199998142

LCCN: 2013049348

Subjects--Topical Terms:
American literature--History and criticism.--New England
American literature--History and criticism.--17th century
American literature--History and criticism.--18th century
Eden in literature.

LC Class. No.: PS243 / .H88 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 810.9974 / H9706