Inventing Eden : primitivism, millennialism, and the making of New England /
Hutchins, Zachary McLeod,author.
Includes bibliographical references 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 labourers, and master masons of Freedom's Temple.
American literature
American literature
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Eden in literature.