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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... religious , and scientific revolu- tions , it may have been the commercial revolution of the seventeenth century that had the deepest effect on English culture and the literature it produced.1 This book tells the story of what that ...
... religious , and scientific revolu- tions , it may have been the commercial revolution of the seventeenth century that had the deepest effect on English culture and the literature it produced.1 This book tells the story of what that ...
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... religious , political , and scientific debates : agency and organization.16 Eco- nomic discourse could place pressure on traditional categories of thought and established genres precisely because it was associated with a power- ful new ...
... religious , political , and scientific debates : agency and organization.16 Eco- nomic discourse could place pressure on traditional categories of thought and established genres precisely because it was associated with a power- ful new ...
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... religious form as when they took the form of exclusive trading privi- leges.1 Most radically of all , Gerrard Winstanley could pronounce that the king of righteousness would be free to rule in every heart only if the earth were turned ...
... religious form as when they took the form of exclusive trading privi- leges.1 Most radically of all , Gerrard Winstanley could pronounce that the king of righteousness would be free to rule in every heart only if the earth were turned ...
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... religion , they still analyze economic events in Marxist terms that would be recognized by neither seventeenth - century English- men nor neoclassical economists — the two perspectives that I privilege over Marxist categories.26 That ...
... religion , they still analyze economic events in Marxist terms that would be recognized by neither seventeenth - century English- men nor neoclassical economists — the two perspectives that I privilege over Marxist categories.26 That ...
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... religious , political , geographi- cal , and economic lines , vulnerable to two political revolutions , and in- creasingly permeable to foreign cultures as its trade and colonial relations expanded . These theoretical demurrals have ...
... religious , political , geographi- cal , and economic lines , vulnerable to two political revolutions , and in- creasingly permeable to foreign cultures as its trade and colonial relations expanded . These theoretical demurrals have ...
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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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