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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... arguments that had been advanced by Malynes as early as 1601 . But others , like Sir Thomas Roe His Speech in Parliament ( 1640 ) and Henry Robinson's England's Safety , in Trade's Encrease ( 1641 ) argued that England's cloth trade ...
... arguments that had been advanced by Malynes as early as 1601 . But others , like Sir Thomas Roe His Speech in Parliament ( 1640 ) and Henry Robinson's England's Safety , in Trade's Encrease ( 1641 ) argued that England's cloth trade ...
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... arguments that found their ori- gin , if not their ultimate significance , in this literature of trade but that were not long confined to its narrow circuit - acquired cultural authority in part because it hailed from a discipline in ...
... arguments that found their ori- gin , if not their ultimate significance , in this literature of trade but that were not long confined to its narrow circuit - acquired cultural authority in part because it hailed from a discipline in ...
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... argument for the circulation of ideas and the consequent production of truth . For some reformers like those in the Hartlib ... arguments , I suggest in closing , that underwrote his defense of popular sovereignty from 1649 to 1651 . The ...
... argument for the circulation of ideas and the consequent production of truth . For some reformers like those in the Hartlib ... arguments , I suggest in closing , that underwrote his defense of popular sovereignty from 1649 to 1651 . The ...
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... Henry Lawes , and his performers , the Egerton children , who had danced in Tempe Restored ( 1632 ) and Coelum Britannicum ( 1634 ) . What he produced is a re- formed masque that gives greater scope to argument , prophecy.
... Henry Lawes , and his performers , the Egerton children , who had danced in Tempe Restored ( 1632 ) and Coelum Britannicum ( 1634 ) . What he produced is a re- formed masque that gives greater scope to argument , prophecy.
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... arguments for the circulation of wealth and the consumption of the world's bounty . It seems strange that the topic should arise , and it is strange . It would be difficult to imagine any subject less calculated to in- flame the ...
... arguments for the circulation of wealth and the consumption of the world's bounty . It seems strange that the topic should arise , and it is strange . It would be difficult to imagine any subject less calculated to in- flame the ...
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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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