Eating with Eve

Tigner, Amy L.

doi:10.1111/j.1094-348x.2010.00257.x

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“…Eve's "intellectual mastery of the culinary possibilities of her garden that is distinctly outside patriarchal purview." 36 Rather, Eve's excellence in matters domestic prior to the morning of the Fall positions her within the ideal of womanhood espoused by the patriarchal purview of seventeenth-century England. Adam, too, evidently has such gendered alignments in view when he pronounces that "nothing lovelier can be found / In Woman, then to studie household good, / And good workes in her Husband to promote" (9.232-34).…”

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“Domestick Adam” versus “Adventrous Eve”: Arguments about Gardening in Milton's Eden

Paice¹

2021

Milton Studies

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This article emphasizes the importance of Adam and Eve's dispute over gardening in accounting for their progression towards the Fall. Reading Adam and Eve's conversation in book 9 of Paradise Lost in the light of husbandry manuals and the companionship ideals embraced by Milton, it argues that both stray from their culturally and textually sanctioned roles. Eve's rejection of her husband's society in favor of her plants runs counter to the desired movement up “the scale of Nature” (PL 5.509), as outlined by the archangel Raphael. Adam, too, chooses wrongly on the morning of the Fall, seeking pleasure and ease in the bower during the hours assigned for garden labor. As faults, Adam and Eve's misalignments in nature and companionship are temporary and can be put right, but their accumulation makes them susceptible to Satan's temptation.

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