Inventing Eden : primitivism, millennialism, and the making of New England Zachary McLeod Hutchins.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014Description: x, 329 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780199998142Subject(s): American literature -- New England -- History and criticism | American literature -- 17th century -- History and criticism | American literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism | Eden in literatureDDC classification: 810.9974 LOC classification: PS243 | .H88 2014| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Nalanda University Language and Literature | School of languages and Literature/Humanities Studies | 810.9974 H9706 (Browse shelf (Opens below)) | Available | 006195 |
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.
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