Engendering the Fall: John Milton and Seventeenth-Century Women Writers

by Shannon Miller

The narrative of the Garden of Eden infused seventeenth-century political thought no less than it reflected attitudes toward the relationship between the sexes. Within the contemporary debate over political legitimacy, theorists who supported or questioned the monarchy turned explicitly to the narrative of the Garden of Eden and Adam and Eve to articulate their theories of governmental authority.

Engaging this foundational relationship between...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812240863
• ISBN13: 9780812240863
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"