Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England - Rilegato

Picciotto, Joanna

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ISBN 10: 0674049063 ISBN 13: 9780674049062

Casa editrice: Harvard Univ Pr, 2010

Riassunto

<p>In seventeenth-century England, intellectuals of all kinds discovered their idealized self-image in the Adam who investigated, named, and commanded the creatures. Reinvented as the agent of innocent curiosity, Adam was central to the project of redefining contemplation as a productive and public labor. It was by identifying with creation’s original sovereign, Joanna Picciotto argues, that early modern scientists, poets, and pamphleteers claimed authority as both workers and “public persons.” <br><br>Tracking an ethos of <i>imitatio Adami</i> across a wide range of disciplines and devotions, Picciotto reveals how practical efforts to restore paradise generated the modern concept of objectivity and a novel understanding of the author as an agent of estranged perception. Finally, she shows how the effort to restore Adam as a working collective transformed the corpus mysticum into a public. Offering new readings of key texts by writers such as Robert Hooke, John Locke, Andrew Marvell, Joseph Addison, and most of all John Milton, <i>Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England</i> advances a new account of the relationship between Protestantism, experimental science, the public sphere, and intellectual labor itself.</p>

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Informazioni sull'autore

Joanna Picciotto is an Associate Professor of English at University of California, Berkeley.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Harvard Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0674049063
• ISBN 13: 9780674049062
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 863
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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