is superior to the garden by virtue of being made after it in that every succeeding work of God is ever more excellent. She is a more perfect version of Paradise, an improvement upon her prior landscape.

Sowernam as an early eco-feminist defender of Eve is that Sowernam also persists in implying that Eve is superior to the garden by virtue of being made after it. Sower man repeatedly claims that Eve is more perfect than everything made before her because 'every succeeding work was ever more excellent then what was formerly Created: hee wrought by degrees, providing in all for that which was and should be the end' (3). . . . In this paradigm, Sowernam suggests that Eve is a more perfect version of Paradise, an improvement upon her prior landscape.

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