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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... Republican Experiments , Royalist Responses CHAPTER 3 The King of Trade 22 62 91 PART THREE FORCE , COMMERCE , AND EMPIRE CHAPTER 4 Royalist Topography and the Epic of Trade 129 CHAPTER 5 Speculation in Paradise 150 CHAPTER 6 From ...
... Republican Experiments , Royalist Responses CHAPTER 3 The King of Trade 22 62 91 PART THREE FORCE , COMMERCE , AND EMPIRE CHAPTER 4 Royalist Topography and the Epic of Trade 129 CHAPTER 5 Speculation in Paradise 150 CHAPTER 6 From ...
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... republicans and Royalists to align their respective governments with the cause of commercial expansion , a struggle that the Royalists eventu- ally won . For Milton , it was a bitter turn , and he bemoaned " the vain and groundless ...
... republicans and Royalists to align their respective governments with the cause of commercial expansion , a struggle that the Royalists eventu- ally won . For Milton , it was a bitter turn , and he bemoaned " the vain and groundless ...
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... republicans , even if they are better known for their emphasis on trade and productivity . But I hope these chapters , and in particular Chapters Five and Seven , will also convey how sensible Milton remained of the darker possibilities ...
... republicans , even if they are better known for their emphasis on trade and productivity . But I hope these chapters , and in particular Chapters Five and Seven , will also convey how sensible Milton remained of the darker possibilities ...
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... Milton in this part , it is against the artistic ground that they created at the Restoration that we shall read Paradise Lost in the next . CHAPTER TWO Republican Experiments , Royalist Responses T he trade THE GOVERNMENT OF TRADE 61.
... Milton in this part , it is against the artistic ground that they created at the Restoration that we shall read Paradise Lost in the next . CHAPTER TWO Republican Experiments , Royalist Responses T he trade THE GOVERNMENT OF TRADE 61.
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... republicans aggressively promoted the Commonwealth's record of trade and advanced a strong economic case against ... Republican Experiments, Royalist Responses.
... republicans aggressively promoted the Commonwealth's record of trade and advanced a strong economic case against ... Republican Experiments, Royalist Responses.
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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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