Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England - Hardcover

Picciotto, Joanna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674049063 ISBN 13: 9780674049062

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 2010

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Book by Picciotto Joanna

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[Picciotto] offers real insights into many literati from Abraham Cowley and Andrew Marvell at the beginning of the chosen period to Daniel Defoe, Joseph Addison, and Celia Fiennes at the end. Particularly valuable are her accounts of the rhetorical strategies of self-presentation employed by [Robert] Hooke, [Robert] Boyle, and Mr. Spectator...An important resource for philosophy of science as well as English literature. -- E. D. Hill Choice 20110101

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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." Tracking an ethos of imitatio Adami 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, Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England advances a new account of the relationship between Protestantism, experimental science, the public sphere, and intellectual labor itself.

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• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0674049063
• ISBN 13: 9780674049062
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 880