Beyond “Milton’s Bogey”: Eve as Gardener in Hannah More’s Coelebs in Search of a Wife
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This paper seeks to explain how and why Hannah More chose to model her perfect heroine, Lucilla Stanley, on Milton’s Eve in her only published novel, Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1808). The novel was a runaway bestseller in its time despite having no real plot or interesting incidents. Conceived as a work of Evangelical propaganda in the best sense of the word, More sets out to portray a prelapsarian domestic scene dominated by a modern Eve whose primary characteristic is her love of gardening. The extensive allusion to Paradise Lost (1667) throughout the novel invites us to consider why a female author would choose to model her heroine on the figure of Milton’s Eve. More seeks to recuperate an older idea of equality based on wholeness and in-dividuality prior to the newer construction of the separate and equal individual of modern liberal thought. The idea of gardening elevates Eve’s and Lucilla’s status as active agents of God in an unfallen world where there is no distinction between male and female spheres, world and home. The paper suggests that “Milton’s bogey” was really no bogey for either Lucilla or her creator, because they are both strong readers capable of reading with and beyond male authors who frame the English canon.
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This paper seeks to explain how and why Hannah More chose to model her perfect heroine, Lucilla Stanley, on Milton’s Eve in her only published novel, Coelebs in Search of a Wife (1808). The novel was a runaway bestseller in its time despite having no real plot or interesting incidents. Conceived as a work of Evangelical propaganda in the best sense of the word, More sets out to portray a prelapsarian domestic scene dominated by a modern Eve whose primary characteristic is her love of gardening. The extensive allusion to Paradise Lost (1667) throughout the novel invites us to consider why a female author would choose to model her heroine on the figure of Milton’s Eve. More seeks to recuperate an older idea of equality based on wholeness and in-dividuality prior to the newer construction of the separate and equal individual of modern liberal thought. The idea of gardening elevates Eve’s and Lucilla’s status as active agents of God in an unfallen world where there is no distinction between male and female spheres, world and home. The paper suggests that “Milton’s bogey” was really no bogey for either Lucilla or her creator, because they are both strong readers capable of reading with and beyond male authors who frame the English canon.
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