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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... FORCE , COMMERCE , AND EMPIRE CHAPTER 4 Royalist Topography and the Epic of Trade 129 CHAPTER 5 Speculation in Paradise 150 CHAPTER 6 From Amboyna to Windsor Forest 178 PART FOUR THE MEANING OF WORK CHAPTER 7 Idleness Had Contents.
... FORCE , COMMERCE , AND EMPIRE CHAPTER 4 Royalist Topography and the Epic of Trade 129 CHAPTER 5 Speculation in Paradise 150 CHAPTER 6 From Amboyna to Windsor Forest 178 PART FOUR THE MEANING OF WORK CHAPTER 7 Idleness Had Contents.
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... empire . When 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 ...
... empire . When 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 ...
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... Empire , ” I examine the ways in which representations of trade , force , and geography intersect in Annus Mirabilis ( 1667 ) , Paradise Lost ( 1667 ) , Dryden's Amboyna ( 1673 ) , and the tradition of topographic poetry that stretches ...
... Empire , ” I examine the ways in which representations of trade , force , and geography intersect in Annus Mirabilis ( 1667 ) , Paradise Lost ( 1667 ) , Dryden's Amboyna ( 1673 ) , and the tradition of topographic poetry that stretches ...
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... empire and that the state might be tempted to requisition the productive capacities of its citizens . Especially in his late verse , Milton seems peculiarly conscious both of the difficulty of imagining any sys- tem of economic ...
... empire and that the state might be tempted to requisition the productive capacities of its citizens . Especially in his late verse , Milton seems peculiarly conscious both of the difficulty of imagining any sys- tem of economic ...
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... empire of trade — focused on a single entrepôt — that we will consider in subse- quent chapters . " 1 Less convinced by that model than many contemporary Puritan intellectuals were , Milton believed that the crucial determinant of ...
... empire of trade — focused on a single entrepôt — that we will consider in subse- quent chapters . " 1 Less convinced by that model than many contemporary Puritan intellectuals were , Milton believed that the crucial determinant of ...
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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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