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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... poets and polemicists because it changed the language that they had at their disposal by attaching new meanings to words and tropes . Take the word commodity . To describe something as a commodity in the fifteenth and sixteenth cen ...
... poets and polemicists because it changed the language that they had at their disposal by attaching new meanings to words and tropes . Take the word commodity . To describe something as a commodity in the fifteenth and sixteenth cen ...
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... poets of the next century arguably wished to create a purged poetic diction , seventeenth- century poets were more often exhilarated than repelled by the polyse- mous language of trade.24 Understandably so . For economic discourse re ...
... poets of the next century arguably wished to create a purged poetic diction , seventeenth- century poets were more often exhilarated than repelled by the polyse- mous language of trade.24 Understandably so . For economic discourse re ...
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... neither the king nor his poets managed to reconceive their ideal of the monarchy in a way that could square with Charles I's financial de- pendence on trade or project an economic vision whose scope 60 THE GOVERNMENT OF TRADE.
... neither the king nor his poets managed to reconceive their ideal of the monarchy in a way that could square with Charles I's financial de- pendence on trade or project an economic vision whose scope 60 THE GOVERNMENT OF TRADE.
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... poets and artists made room in their art for it . These representations of trade merit our attention because they mark a turning point in England's literary and cultural history — a moment when the attributes of monarchy , the concept ...
... poets and artists made room in their art for it . These representations of trade merit our attention because they mark a turning point in England's literary and cultural history — a moment when the attributes of monarchy , the concept ...
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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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