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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Side 3
... Charles I's reign , it remained apparent that England would not , in future , be able to rely on its trade in white cloths , which were in less and less demand . Whereas articulate opinion had once identified the commonwealth's ...
... Charles I's reign , it remained apparent that England would not , in future , be able to rely on its trade in white cloths , which were in less and less demand . Whereas articulate opinion had once identified the commonwealth's ...
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... Charles II in 1660 , despite the intervening efforts of Parliament to reestablish control over the press . Its effects were felt long afterwards . 12 Some of the tracts on trade that appeared during these years , such as Sir Ralph ...
... Charles II in 1660 , despite the intervening efforts of Parliament to reestablish control over the press . Its effects were felt long afterwards . 12 Some of the tracts on trade that appeared during these years , such as Sir Ralph ...
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... Charles II's restoration to the appearance in print of Dryden's Annus Mirabilis . One of their central claims was that force and commerce , Crown and City , could coordinate their efforts and generate strength and INTRODUCTION II.
... Charles II's restoration to the appearance in print of Dryden's Annus Mirabilis . One of their central claims was that force and commerce , Crown and City , could coordinate their efforts and generate strength and INTRODUCTION II.
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... Charles I sometimes referred obliquely to the economic grievances of his subjects . “ Several other Pro- jectors were in like manner personated in this Antimasque , " says Bulstrode Whitelocke of The Triumph of Peace ( 1634 ) , " and it ...
... Charles I sometimes referred obliquely to the economic grievances of his subjects . “ Several other Pro- jectors were in like manner personated in this Antimasque , " says Bulstrode Whitelocke of The Triumph of Peace ( 1634 ) , " and it ...
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... Charles I's attempts to control the pulpit and the printed word.33 What- ever Dyke's original purpose , the publication of his sermon in 1640 sup- plied reformers like Thomas Hill with a language they could use effec- tively . Educated ...
... Charles I's attempts to control the pulpit and the printed word.33 What- ever Dyke's original purpose , the publication of his sermon in 1640 sup- plied reformers like Thomas Hill with a language they could use effec- tively . Educated ...
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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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