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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... John , 1608–1674 — Knowledge— Economics . 2. Economics and literature - Great Britain - History — 17th century . 3. Economics in literature . 4. Commerce in literature . I. Title . PR3592.E25 H69 821'.4 - dc21 2002 A catalogue record ...
... John , 1608–1674 — Knowledge— Economics . 2. Economics and literature - Great Britain - History — 17th century . 3. Economics in literature . 4. Commerce in literature . I. Title . PR3592.E25 H69 821'.4 - dc21 2002 A catalogue record ...
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... John Addison Porter Prize, a Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, and a Richard J. Franke Interdisciplinary Fellowship in the Humanities. Its publication has been subsidized by the Elizabethan Club and by the Frederick W. Hilles ...
... John Addison Porter Prize, a Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, and a Richard J. Franke Interdisciplinary Fellowship in the Humanities. Its publication has been subsidized by the Elizabethan Club and by the Frederick W. Hilles ...
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... John Hollander and Lynne Greenberg commented on an entire version of the manuscript . Lawrence Manley , David Quint , Annabel Patterson , and John Rogers helped me shape this study from its inception as a prospectus , and they have been ...
... John Hollander and Lynne Greenberg commented on an entire version of the manuscript . Lawrence Manley , David Quint , Annabel Patterson , and John Rogers helped me shape this study from its inception as a prospectus , and they have been ...
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... John Milton's Complete Poetical Works in Photographic Facsimile with Critical Appara- tus , ed . Harris Francis Fletcher ( Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1943 ) . I quote Milton's prose from The Complete Prose Works of John ...
... John Milton's Complete Poetical Works in Photographic Facsimile with Critical Appara- tus , ed . Harris Francis Fletcher ( Urbana : University of Illinois Press , 1943 ) . I quote Milton's prose from The Complete Prose Works of John ...
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... vols . ( London : John C. Nimmo , 1886 ) . Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope , gen . ed . John Butt , 6 vols . ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 1939-61 ) . Introduction In an age better known for its political ,
... vols . ( London : John C. Nimmo , 1886 ) . Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope , gen . ed . John Butt , 6 vols . ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 1939-61 ) . Introduction In an age better known for its political ,
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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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