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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... ship white cloths , they proved incapable of doing so , and they faced an even harder time selling the cloths that they did finish , for the United Provinces banned their import . This trade stoppage was exacer- bated by an ...
... ship white cloths , they proved incapable of doing so , and they faced an even harder time selling the cloths that they did finish , for the United Provinces banned their import . This trade stoppage was exacer- bated by an ...
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... ship money , royal grants of monopoly , and even , in 1640 , his seizure of the gold that London merchants had deposited at the mint for safekeeping . ' To Charles I's opponents , these and other unpopular acts were examples of ...
... ship money , royal grants of monopoly , and even , in 1640 , his seizure of the gold that London merchants had deposited at the mint for safekeeping . ' To Charles I's opponents , these and other unpopular acts were examples of ...
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... ship - money , and cote and conduct — he de- nounces " Monopolies , " " Cote , Conduct , and Ship money , " and other infringements on the right to hold property and to engage in trade in Eikonoklastes ( CPW 2 : 545 , 559 ; 3 : 353 ) ...
... ship - money , and cote and conduct — he de- nounces " Monopolies , " " Cote , Conduct , and Ship money , " and other infringements on the right to hold property and to engage in trade in Eikonoklastes ( CPW 2 : 545 , 559 ; 3 : 353 ) ...
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... ships from Britain or their place of origin , sought to promote the English ship - building industry and to cut into the Dutch carrying trade — at the cost and inconvenience , it must be said , of many English merchants who relied on ...
... ships from Britain or their place of origin , sought to promote the English ship - building industry and to cut into the Dutch carrying trade — at the cost and inconvenience , it must be said , of many English merchants who relied on ...
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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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