Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England

Informationen zum Autor Joanna Picciotto is an Associate Professor of English at University of California, Berkeley. Klappentext In seventeenth-century England! intellectuals of various kinds discovered their idealized self-image in the Adam who investigated! named! and commanded the creatures. This title argues! that early modern scientists! poets! and pamphleteers claimed authority as both workers and 'public persons'. Zusammenfassung In seventeenth-century England! intellectuals of various kinds discovered their idealized self-image in the Adam who investigated! named! and commanded the creatures. This title argues! that early modern scientists! poets! and pamphleteers claimed authority as both workers and 'public persons'.

Product details

• Authors: Joanna Picciotto, Picciotto Joanna
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2010
• EAN: 9780674049062
• ISBN: 978-0-674-04906-2
• No. of pages: 880
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, British & Irish history, Literature: history & criticism, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General, Literary studies: general