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Labors of innocence in early modern England
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- Creator
- Joanna Picciotto
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010
- Physical Details
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- ix, 863 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780674049062, 0674049063
- OCLC
- ocn456170017
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: the intellectual's two bodies -- Digging up the hortus conclusus -- A union of eyes and hands: the Royal Society of London for the Improving of Natural Knowledge -- The productive eye -- The culture of curiosity -- Instruments of truth -- Milton and the paradizable reader -- The professional observer
Subjects
- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.
- Intellectuals in literature.
- Labor in literature.
- Literature and science -- England -- History -- 17th century.
- Religion and science -- England -- History -- 17th century.
- Science -- England -- History -- 17th century.
- Great Britain -- Intellectual life -- 17th century.