Inventing Eden : primitivism, millennialism, and the making of New England / Zachary McLeod Hutchins

Author: Hutchins, Zachary McLeod
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Physical Description: x, 329 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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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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9780199998142
0199998140

Bibliography Note

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

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