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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... Restoration , ” ELH 63 ( 1999 ) : 561–627 . An earlier version of Chapter Seven appeared as “ At the Public Mill of the Philistines : Samson Agonistes and the Problem of Work after the Restoration , ” in The Altering Eye : New Perspec ...
... Restoration , ” ELH 63 ( 1999 ) : 561–627 . An earlier version of Chapter Seven appeared as “ At the Public Mill of the Philistines : Samson Agonistes and the Problem of Work after the Restoration , ” in The Altering Eye : New Perspec ...
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... Restoration.8 Because he chose to rule without Parliament from 1629 , Charles I was particularly dependent on customs revenues from foreign trade , but even this could not finance the Crown . So he raised funds from impositions , ship ...
... Restoration.8 Because he chose to rule without Parliament from 1629 , Charles I was particularly dependent on customs revenues from foreign trade , but even this could not finance the Crown . So he raised funds from impositions , ship ...
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... restoration of 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 ...
... restoration of 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 ...
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... Restoration poets praised Lon- don as the bank of world trade and imagined the world's “ commodities ” converging on the Thames , they were performing a complex verbal act— narrowing the application of the word to wares , invoking its ...
... Restoration poets praised Lon- don as the bank of world trade and imagined the world's “ commodities ” converging on the Thames , they were performing a complex verbal act— narrowing the application of the word to wares , invoking its ...
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... restoration of the king in the midst of another trade crisis , put tremendous pressure on politicians to articulate a theory of government's role in the economy . In " The Government of Trade , " a part covering the years 1649-67 , I ...
... restoration of the king in the midst of another trade crisis , put tremendous pressure on politicians to articulate a theory of government's role in the economy . In " The Government of Trade , " a part covering the years 1649-67 , I ...
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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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