Mammon's Music: Literature and Economics in the Age of MiltonYale University Press, 2008 M10 1 - 336 pages 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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... Dryden , ed . Edward Niles Hooker and H. T. Sweden- berg , Jr. , 20 vols . ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 1956–89 ) . The Poems and Letters of Andrew Marvell , ed . H. M. Margoliouth , 3d ed . , rev . Pierre Leguois and ...
... Dryden , ed . Edward Niles Hooker and H. T. Sweden- berg , Jr. , 20 vols . ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 1956–89 ) . The Poems and Letters of Andrew Marvell , ed . H. M. Margoliouth , 3d ed . , rev . Pierre Leguois and ...
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... Dryden , and Sir William Petty . I set my consideration of these , 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 ...
... Dryden , and Sir William Petty . I set my consideration of these , 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 ...
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... from Charles II's restoration to the appearance in print of Dryden's Annus Mirabilis . One of their central claims was that force and commerce , Crown and City , could coordinate their efforts and generate strength and INTRODUCTION II.
... from Charles II's restoration to the appearance in print of Dryden's Annus Mirabilis . One of their central claims was that force and commerce , Crown and City , could coordinate their efforts and generate strength and INTRODUCTION II.
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... Dryden's Amboyna ( 1673 ) , and the tradition of topographic poetry that stretches from Sir John Denham's Coopers Hill ( 1642 ) to Alexander Pope's Windsor Forest ( 1713 ) . For Dryden , the complementary relationship between force and ...
... Dryden's Amboyna ( 1673 ) , and the tradition of topographic poetry that stretches from Sir John Denham's Coopers Hill ( 1642 ) to Alexander Pope's Windsor Forest ( 1713 ) . For Dryden , the complementary relationship between force and ...
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... mence - Hill was not only the rector of John Dryden's boyhood parish but his Master when the poet studied at Trinity College , Cambridge.35 In The Trade of Truth Advanced , a sermon that he THE TRADE OF TRUTH ADVANCED 33.
... mence - Hill was not only the rector of John Dryden's boyhood parish but his Master when the poet studied at Trinity College , Cambridge.35 In The Trade of Truth Advanced , a sermon that he THE TRADE OF TRUTH ADVANCED 33.
Contents
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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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