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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... Royalist Responses CHAPTER 3 The King of Trade 22 62 91 PART THREE FORCE , COMMERCE , AND EMPIRE CHAPTER 4 Royalist Topography and the Epic of Trade 129 CHAPTER 5 Speculation in Paradise 150 CHAPTER 6 From Amboyna to Windsor Forest 178 ...
... Royalist Responses CHAPTER 3 The King of Trade 22 62 91 PART THREE FORCE , COMMERCE , AND EMPIRE CHAPTER 4 Royalist Topography and the Epic of Trade 129 CHAPTER 5 Speculation in Paradise 150 CHAPTER 6 From Amboyna to Windsor Forest 178 ...
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... Royalists to align their respective governments with the cause of commercial expansion , a struggle that the ... Royalist victory carried its own price . In order to make their case convincing , Royalists had to present a revised ...
... Royalists to align their respective governments with the cause of commercial expansion , a struggle that the ... Royalist victory carried its own price . In order to make their case convincing , Royalists had to present a revised ...
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... Royalist forces , her " blood is fresh , the spirits pure and vig- orous " enough to supply not just the vital organs but the rational faculties ( CPW 2 : 556-57 ) . While Milton means most simply that Londoners have not only managed to ...
... Royalist forces , her " blood is fresh , the spirits pure and vig- orous " enough to supply not just the vital organs but the rational faculties ( CPW 2 : 556-57 ) . While Milton means most simply that Londoners have not only managed to ...
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... Royalist John Evelyn saw that alignment as an important event in English history . While it was usual , he claimed , for " illustrious Nations " to esteem “ the gain by Traffick and Commerce incompatible with Nobless ” in their early ...
... Royalist John Evelyn saw that alignment as an important event in English history . While it was usual , he claimed , for " illustrious Nations " to esteem “ the gain by Traffick and Commerce incompatible with Nobless ” in their early ...
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... part , it is against the artistic ground that they created at the Restoration that we shall read Paradise Lost in the next . CHAPTER TWO Republican Experiments , Royalist Responses T he trade THE GOVERNMENT OF TRADE 61.
... part , it is against the artistic ground that they created at the Restoration that we shall read Paradise Lost in the next . CHAPTER TWO Republican Experiments , Royalist Responses T he trade THE GOVERNMENT OF TRADE 61.
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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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