Engendering the Fall: John Milton and Seventeenth-Century Women WritersUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2008 M06 25 - 280 pages 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. |
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