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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... century . 3. Economics in literature . 4. Commerce in literature . I. Title . PR3592.E25 H69 821'.4 - dc21 2002 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library . 2002002643 The paper in this book meets the ...
... century . 3. Economics in literature . 4. Commerce in literature . I. Title . PR3592.E25 H69 821'.4 - dc21 2002 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library . 2002002643 The paper in this book meets the ...
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... Century Journal Conference, where I delivered portions of it as talks. An earlier and shorter version of Chapter One appeared as ''The Trade of Truth Advanced : Areopagitica , Economic Discourse , and Acknowledgments.
... Century Journal Conference, where I delivered portions of it as talks. An earlier and shorter version of Chapter One appeared as ''The Trade of Truth Advanced : Areopagitica , Economic Discourse , and Acknowledgments.
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... century that had the deepest effect on English culture and the literature it produced.1 This book tells the story of what that revolution , spanning the decades from 1630 to 1700 , meant both to the century's greatest poet and to the ...
... century that had the deepest effect on English culture and the literature it produced.1 This book tells the story of what that revolution , spanning the decades from 1630 to 1700 , meant both to the century's greatest poet and to the ...
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... century , “ but the private- wealth , if I may so say , of the members therof in the exercise of Com- merce ... ? " Beginning with the aim of advocating isolated policies , Mun and Misselden took tentative steps toward developing a ...
... century , “ but the private- wealth , if I may so say , of the members therof in the exercise of Com- merce ... ? " Beginning with the aim of advocating isolated policies , Mun and Misselden took tentative steps toward developing a ...
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... century's two great publishing booms , lasted until the 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 ...
... century's two great publishing booms , lasted until the 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 ...
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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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