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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... parliamentary records . Martine Julia van Ittersum patiently translated Dutch materials for me ; the few such transla- tions that appear in the book are hers . Leslie Brisman , Ruth Yeazell , Tyrus Miller , Laura King , and Lawrence ...
... parliamentary records . Martine Julia van Ittersum patiently translated Dutch materials for me ; the few such transla- tions that appear in the book are hers . Leslie Brisman , Ruth Yeazell , Tyrus Miller , Laura King , and Lawrence ...
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... Parliament from 1629 , Charles I was particularly dependent on customs revenues from foreign trade , but even this could not finance the Crown . So he raised funds from impositions , ship money , royal grants of monopoly , and even , in ...
... Parliament from 1629 , Charles I was particularly dependent on customs revenues from foreign trade , but even this could not finance the Crown . So he raised funds from impositions , ship money , royal grants of monopoly , and even , in ...
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... Parliament sat in 1640 , it consequently announced its intention to redress a range of grievances , including monopolies and un- parliamentary taxes.10 Because the system for controlling the press that the Crown had established began to ...
... Parliament sat in 1640 , it consequently announced its intention to redress a range of grievances , including monopolies and un- parliamentary taxes.10 Because the system for controlling the press that the Crown had established began to ...
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... Parliament's Licensing Order of June 14 , 1643 , Milton should again think of intellectual exchange in terms of trade . For the order used a grant of exclusive privi- leges to a select group of master printers to align the economic ...
... Parliament's Licensing Order of June 14 , 1643 , Milton should again think of intellectual exchange in terms of trade . For the order used a grant of exclusive privi- leges to a select group of master printers to align the economic ...
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... Parliament , and in print . As Sir Robert Cecil observed in 1601 , the “ dispute " over monopolies drew " two great things in question ; First the Princes power ; Secondly the freedom of Englishmen . " The queen , said Francis Bacon ...
... Parliament , and in print . As Sir Robert Cecil observed in 1601 , the “ dispute " over monopolies drew " two great things in question ; First the Princes power ; Secondly the freedom of Englishmen . " The queen , said Francis Bacon ...
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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