Inventing Eden
Primitivism, Millennialism, and the Making of New England
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 7 August 2014
- ISBN 9780199998142
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages344 pages
- Size 165x236x27 mm
- Weight 592 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 halftones 0
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Short description:
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.
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As Christopher Columbus surveyed lush New World landscapes, he eventually concluded that he had rediscovered the biblical garden from which God expelled Adam and Eve. Reading the paradisiacal rhetoric of Columbus, John Smith, and other explorers, English immigrants sailed for North America full of hope. However, the rocky soil and cold winters of New England quickly persuaded Puritan and Quaker colonists to convert their search for a physical paradise into a quest for Eden's less tangible perfections: temperate physiologies, intellectual enlightenment, linguistic purity, and harmonious social relations. Scholars have long acknowledged explorers' willingness to characterize the North American terrain in edenic terms, but Inventing Eden pushes beyond this geographical optimism to uncover the influence of Genesis on the iconic artifacts, traditions, and social movements that shaped seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American culture. Harvard Yard, the Bay Psalm Book, and the Quaker use of antiquated pronouns like thee and thou: these are products of a seventeenth-century desire for Eden. So, too, are the evangelical emphasis of the Great Awakening, the doctrine of natural law popularized by the Declaration of Independence, and the first United States judicial decision abolishing slavery. From public nudity to Freemasonry, a belief in Eden affected every sphere of public life in colonial New England and, eventually, the new nation. Spanning two centuries and surveying the work of English and colonial thinkers from William Shakespeare and John Milton to Anne Hutchinson and Benjamin Franklin, Inventing Eden is the history of an idea that shaped American literature, identity, and culture.
In this ambitious, deeply researched, and wide-ranging book, Hutchins offers fresh perspective on early New England through an examination of one surprisingly fertile concept: the biblical Eden.
Table of Contents:
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
