Inventing Eden
Primitivism, Millennialism, and the Making of New England
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Word Count
86,000 words, Guess
Page Count
344 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- ISBN-100199998140
- ISBN-139780199998142
- OCLC Control Number869548922
- OCLC Control Number2013049348
- Better World Books9780199998142
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL27556669M
Classifications
- LCCPS243.H88 2014
- LCCPS243 .H88 2014
Description
'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 colonisation 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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