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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... Crown . So he raised funds from impositions , ship money , royal grants of monopoly , and even , in 1640 , his seizure of the gold that London merchants had deposited at the mint for safekeeping . ' To Charles I's opponents , these and ...
... Crown . So he raised funds from impositions , ship money , royal grants of monopoly , and even , in 1640 , his seizure of the gold that London merchants had deposited at the mint for safekeeping . ' To Charles I's opponents , these and ...
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... Crown had established began to crumble shortly after the assembly began . to sit , a period of what Milton hailed as “ free writing and free speak- ing " ensued . " This , the first of the century's two great publishing booms , lasted ...
... Crown had established began to crumble shortly after the assembly began . to sit , a period of what Milton hailed as “ free writing and free speak- ing " ensued . " This , the first of the century's two great publishing booms , lasted ...
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... from 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.
... from 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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... Crown in the form of taxes and loans , the monopoly system also provided an attractive form of extraparliamentary financing . By the end of Elizabeth's reign , however , the legal basis and economic effect of this unpopular system was ...
... Crown in the form of taxes and loans , the monopoly system also provided an attractive form of extraparliamentary financing . By the end of Elizabeth's reign , however , the legal basis and economic effect of this unpopular system was ...
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... Crown and chartered companies and that “ if the number of traders were enlarged , trade itself would be enlarged . ” 18 Trade was not fixed , in other words , but elastic , and as long as the num- ber of traders was restricted and their ...
... Crown and chartered companies and that “ if the number of traders were enlarged , trade itself would be enlarged . ” 18 Trade was not fixed , in other words , but elastic , and as long as the num- ber of traders was restricted and 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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