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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... Paradise Lost ( 1667 ) , and Paradise Regaind . A Poem in IV Books . To Which is Added Samson Agonistes ( 1671 ) . These are reproduced in John Milton's Complete Poetical Works in Photographic Facsimile with Critical Appara- tus , ed ...
... Paradise Lost ( 1667 ) , and Paradise Regaind . A Poem in IV Books . To Which is Added Samson Agonistes ( 1671 ) . These are reproduced in John Milton's Complete Poetical Works in Photographic Facsimile with Critical Appara- tus , ed ...
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... Paradise Lost ( 1667 ) , 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 ...
... Paradise Lost ( 1667 ) , 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 ...
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... Paradise Lost - but it is with the claims of circulation and commerce that my first chapter begins . By the time of Areopagitica ( 1644 ) , the Lady's insistence that “ none / But such as are good men can give good things " would no ...
... Paradise Lost - but it is with the claims of circulation and commerce that my first chapter begins . By the time of Areopagitica ( 1644 ) , the Lady's insistence that “ none / But such as are good men can give good things " would no ...
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... Paradise Lost in the next . CHAPTER TWO Republican Experiments , Royalist Responses T he trade THE GOVERNMENT OF TRADE 61.
... Paradise Lost in the next . CHAPTER TWO Republican Experiments , Royalist Responses T he trade THE GOVERNMENT OF TRADE 61.
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... Paradise Lost . Treating the initia- tives of the Commonwealth and Protectorate largely in retrospect , as they were remembered and debated after the death of Cromwell and before the return of Charles II , this chapter should help us ...
... Paradise Lost . Treating the initia- tives of the Commonwealth and Protectorate largely in retrospect , as they were remembered and debated after the death of Cromwell and before the return of Charles II , this chapter should help us ...
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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