@article{1478894,
      recid = {1478894},
      author = {Picciotto, Joanna, },
      title = {Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England /},
      pages = {1 online resource (880 p.)},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478894},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674056770},
}