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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... James J. Johnson and set in Bembo Roman type by Tseng Information Systems , Inc. Printed in the United States of America by Sheridan Books , Ann Arbor , Michigan . Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Hoxby , Blair ...
... James J. Johnson and set in Bembo Roman type by Tseng Information Systems , Inc. Printed in the United States of America by Sheridan Books , Ann Arbor , Michigan . Library of Congress Cataloging - in - Publication Data Hoxby , Blair ...
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... James ) version . Citations of classical sources , unless otherwise indicated , refer to editions in the Loeb Classical Library . In a few cases , I have made minor changes to the translations . I cite the first editions of Milton's ...
... James ) version . Citations of classical sources , unless otherwise indicated , refer to editions in the Loeb Classical Library . In a few cases , I have made minor changes to the translations . I cite the first editions of Milton's ...
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... James I came to the throne in 1603 , the vast majority of En- gland's four million inhabitants lived in rural districts and worked the land , and even tradesmen in medium - sized towns typically earned some of their income from farming ...
... James I came to the throne in 1603 , the vast majority of En- gland's four million inhabitants lived in rural districts and worked the land , and even tradesmen in medium - sized towns typically earned some of their income from farming ...
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... words and money is as old as Zeno , as Marc Shell has observed , and it remained . current in seventeenth - century England.28 That is why Michel Drayton claimed in a poem that the Goldsmiths presented to James INTRODUCTION 7.
... words and money is as old as Zeno , as Marc Shell has observed , and it remained . current in seventeenth - century England.28 That is why Michel Drayton claimed in a poem that the Goldsmiths presented to James INTRODUCTION 7.
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... James I that Apollo was rightly the god of both poetry and minting.29 My interpretive meth- ods are compatible with semiological readings when they dwell on poetic moments like this , but I prefer to focus on economic topics other than ...
... James I that Apollo was rightly the god of both poetry and minting.29 My interpretive meth- ods are compatible with semiological readings when they dwell on poetic moments like this , but I prefer to focus on economic topics other than ...
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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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