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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... monopolists were " odious " because they were viri sanguinis , and “ against these Inventers and Propounders of evill things , the holy Ghost hath spoken , Inventores malorum , & c . digni sunt morte . " 10 They were , said Coke's Latin ...
... monopolists were " odious " because they were viri sanguinis , and “ against these Inventers and Propounders of evill things , the holy Ghost hath spoken , Inventores malorum , & c . digni sunt morte . " 10 They were , said Coke's Latin ...
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... monopolists were bloodsuck- ers — and perhaps responding to James I's reference to chartered compa- nies as “ the veins whereby wealth is imported into our estate " -company opponents charged that such monopolies “ like Incubusses doe ...
... monopolists were bloodsuck- ers — and perhaps responding to James I's reference to chartered compa- nies as “ the veins whereby wealth is imported into our estate " -company opponents charged that such monopolies “ like Incubusses doe ...
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... monopolists were likened to such tyrants as the Roman emperors , the Catholic Church , the Habsburgs , and even the Beast of Revelation , who " causeth all , both small and great , rich and poor , free and bond , to receive a mark in ...
... monopolists were likened to such tyrants as the Roman emperors , the Catholic Church , the Habsburgs , and even the Beast of Revelation , who " causeth all , both small and great , rich and poor , free and bond , to receive a mark in ...
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... monopolists . 38 After all , the Long Parliament's popularity depended in part on its ap- parently firm stand against monopolies . In a petition of 1640 , ten thousand citizens of London had listed monopolies among their foremost griev ...
... monopolists . 38 After all , the Long Parliament's popularity depended in part on its ap- parently firm stand against monopolies . In a petition of 1640 , ten thousand citizens of London had listed monopolies among their foremost griev ...
Side 36
... monopolist in a traditional rite of shame , from A Dialogue or Accidental Discourse Betwixt Mr. Alderman Abell , and ... Monopolists ” were now “ hid in holes and ke [ pt ] aloofe , / Being indeed not Parliamentall proofe , ” it spoke ...
... monopolist in a traditional rite of shame , from A Dialogue or Accidental Discourse Betwixt Mr. Alderman Abell , and ... Monopolists ” were now “ hid in holes and ke [ pt ] aloofe , / Being indeed not Parliamentall proofe , ” it spoke ...
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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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