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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... turn , in the context of that longer period of economic transformation . that stretched from the antimonopoly controversy of 1601 to the appear- ance of the final version of Bernard Mandeville's Fable of the Bees in 1724. I do so in ...
... turn , in the context of that longer period of economic transformation . that stretched from the antimonopoly controversy of 1601 to the appear- ance of the final version of Bernard Mandeville's Fable of the Bees in 1724. I do so in ...
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... turn , make themselves felt in contemporary verse and prose.17 The economic thought that appeared in these auspicious conditions is remarkable for its range and diversity . Writers like Benjamin Worsley and Sir William Petty , both of ...
... turn , make themselves felt in contemporary verse and prose.17 The economic thought that appeared in these auspicious conditions is remarkable for its range and diversity . Writers like Benjamin Worsley and Sir William Petty , both of ...
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... turn it into a neutral descriptor in their developing science . They applied it to any object of trade.23 That meant that when Restoration poets praised Lon- don as the bank of world trade and imagined the world's “ commodities ...
... turn it into a neutral descriptor in their developing science . They applied it to any object of trade.23 That meant that when Restoration poets praised Lon- don as the bank of world trade and imagined the world's “ commodities ...
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... turn helps to constitute , society . That such an approach privileges the literary seems to me entirely appropriate for a work that aspires to the name of historicist literary criticism , not historiography . In practice , if not in ...
... turn helps to constitute , society . That such an approach privileges the literary seems to me entirely appropriate for a work that aspires to the name of historicist literary criticism , not historiography . In practice , if not in ...
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... turn , from ar- guments for the spread of truth . It may have been Milton's confidence in those arguments , I suggest in closing , that underwrote his defense of popular sovereignty from 1649 to 1651 . The creation of a new republic in ...
... turn , from ar- guments for the spread of truth . It may have been Milton's confidence in those arguments , I suggest in closing , that underwrote his defense of popular sovereignty from 1649 to 1651 . The creation of a new republic in ...
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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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