Specialties
Books
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Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England 17th-century intellectuals discovered their idealized self-image in the Adam who investigated, named, and commanded the creatures in Eden. Reinvented as the agent of innocent curiosity, Adam was central to the project of redefining contemplation as a productive, public labor. Picciotto argues that practical efforts to restore paradise generated the modern concept of objectivity and .... |
Selected Publications and Papers Delivered
Labors of Innocence in Early Modern England (Harvard University Press, 2010)
“The Public Person and the Play of Fact,” Representations (forthcoming)
“Reforming the Garden: The Experimentalist Eden and Paradise Lost,” English Literary History 72 (1), Spring 2005
"Scientific Investigations" in A Concise Companion to Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature, ed. Cynthia Wall (Oxford: Blackwell, 2004)
"\nOptical Instruments and the 18th-century Observer," Eighteenth-Century Studies 29 2000
Current Research
Professor Picciotto also works on literature and science.
Recent English Courses Taught
Spring, 2013
| 119/1 | Literature of the Restoration and the Early 18th Century |
Renaissance and Early Modern British 18th-Century Novel Drama Poetry |
Spring, 2012
| 119/1 | Augustan Age: Literature of the Restoration and the Early 18th Century |
Renaissance and Early Modern British 18th-Century Novel Drama Poetry |
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| H195B/2 | Honors Course |
Honors and Tutorial Courses |
Fall, 2011
| H195A/2 | Honors Course |
Honors and Tutorial Courses |
Spring, 2011
| H195B/2 | Honors Course |
Honors and Tutorial Courses |
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| 218/1 | Milton |
Graduate Courses |