Mammon's Music: Literature and Economics in the Age of MiltonYale University Press, 1. okt. 2008 - 336 sider The commercial revolution of the seventeenth century deeply changed English culture. In this ambitious book, Blair Hoxby explores what that economic transformation meant to the century’s greatest poet, John Milton, and to the broader literary tradition in which he worked. Hoxby places Milton’s work—as well as the writings of contemporary reformers like the Levellers, poets like John Dryden, and political economists like Sir William Petty—within the framework of England’s economic history between 1601 and 1724. Literary history swerved in this period, Hoxby demonstrates, as a burgeoning economic discourse pressed authors to reimagine ideas about self, community, and empire. Hoxby shows that, contrary to commonly held views, Milton was a sophisticated economic thinker. Close readings of Milton’s prose and verse reveal the importance of economic ideas in a wide range of his most famous writings, from Areopagitica to Samson Agonistes to Paradise Lost. |
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... liberty and property of individual householders the basis of their economic proposals . Not only did they seek to dismantle the monopoly privileges of the guilds , companies , and urban corporations ; they argued , by extension , that ...
... liberty and property of individual householders the basis of their economic proposals . Not only did they seek to dismantle the monopoly privileges of the guilds , companies , and urban corporations ; they argued , by extension , that ...
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... liberty of conscience in the 1640s , is indebted to earlier defenses of free trade , which provided a model argument for the circulation of ideas and the consequent production of truth . For some reformers like those in the Hartlib ...
... liberty of conscience in the 1640s , is indebted to earlier defenses of free trade , which provided a model argument for the circulation of ideas and the consequent production of truth . For some reformers like those in the Hartlib ...
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... liberty and religious reform who is more familiar to them . While Milton's sensitivity to the demands of genre as a poet and his alertness to rhetorical opportunities as a pamphleteer must inevitably frustrate any attempt to distill a ...
... liberty and religious reform who is more familiar to them . While Milton's sensitivity to the demands of genre as a poet and his alertness to rhetorical opportunities as a pamphleteer must inevitably frustrate any attempt to distill a ...
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... liberty in the English language , Milton's Areopagitica ( November 1644 ) . While Milton's editors and critics have ably set his pamphlet in the context of the other tracts on freedom of speech and liberty of conscience that arose from ...
... liberty in the English language , Milton's Areopagitica ( November 1644 ) . While Milton's editors and critics have ably set his pamphlet in the context of the other tracts on freedom of speech and liberty of conscience that arose from ...
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... liberty in the face of oppression but with a model of intellectual exchange that , re- lying on the theories and arguments of free trade advocates , contended that men could best generate truth when they were left free to exercise their ...
... liberty in the face of oppression but with a model of intellectual exchange that , re- lying on the theories and arguments of free trade advocates , contended that men could best generate truth when they were left free to exercise their ...
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Part Three Force Commerce and Empire | 125 |
Part Four The Meaning of Work | 201 |
Conclusion | 233 |
Abbreviations | 253 |
Notes | 255 |
Index | 311 |
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