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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... History — 17th century . 3. Economics in literature . 4. Commerce in literature . I. Title . PR3592.E25 H69 821'.4 - dc21 2002 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library . 2002002643 The paper in this book ...
... History — 17th century . 3. Economics in literature . 4. Commerce in literature . I. Title . PR3592.E25 H69 821'.4 - dc21 2002 A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library . 2002002643 The paper in this book ...
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... historical precision , I read his writings against texts written by his immediate contemporaries , including the Levellers ... history swerve in the seventeenth century — how , by posing new moral and aesthetic problems for authors , it ...
... historical precision , I read his writings against texts written by his immediate contemporaries , including the Levellers ... history swerve in the seventeenth century — how , by posing new moral and aesthetic problems for authors , it ...
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... historical specificity , the social and material embedding ” of all modes of writing and reading , however , New ... history . Having selected my texts according to quite different criteria , I assume that the developments I trace in ...
... historical specificity , the social and material embedding ” of all modes of writing and reading , however , New ... history . Having selected my texts according to quite different criteria , I assume that the developments I trace in ...
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... historical account ( however provisional ) against which we propose to define the fictiveness of such rep- resentations . That is best done , I would argue , by reasserting a temporary and permeable division between the strongly complex ...
... historical account ( however provisional ) against which we propose to define the fictiveness of such rep- resentations . That is best done , I would argue , by reasserting a temporary and permeable division between the strongly complex ...
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... historical context in which I read texts by asking what contemporary events or strains of discourse these works seem ... history and society , then I have privileged the subject's ambivalent experience of his or her relationship with ...
... historical context in which I read texts by asking what contemporary events or strains of discourse these works seem ... history and society , then I have privileged the subject's ambivalent experience of his or her relationship with ...
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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