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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... economics in the age of Milton / Blair Hoxby . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-300-09378-0 ( alk . paper ) 1. Milton , John , 1608–1674 — Knowledge— Economics . 2. Economics and literature - Great Britain ...
... economics in the age of Milton / Blair Hoxby . p . cm . Includes bibliographical references and index . ISBN 0-300-09378-0 ( alk . paper ) 1. Milton , John , 1608–1674 — Knowledge— Economics . 2. Economics and literature - Great Britain ...
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... economy , and the importance of labor . I contend that these inquiries made some of Milton's most compelling and ... economic discourse made literary history swerve in the seventeenth century — how , by posing new moral and aesthetic ...
... economy , and the importance of labor . I contend that these inquiries made some of Milton's most compelling and ... economic discourse made literary history swerve in the seventeenth century — how , by posing new moral and aesthetic ...
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... economic catastrophe that ensued has been compared to the Great Depression of the twentieth cen- tury , not only for its severity but for the foment of inquiry and analy- sis it generated . To be sure , Elizabethans like Sir Thomas ...
... economic catastrophe that ensued has been compared to the Great Depression of the twentieth cen- tury , not only for its severity but for the foment of inquiry and analy- sis it generated . To be sure , Elizabethans like Sir Thomas ...
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... economic discourse " - the language and arguments that found their ori- gin , if not their ultimate significance , in this literature of trade but that were not long confined to its narrow circuit - acquired cultural authority in part ...
... economic discourse " - the language and arguments that found their ori- gin , if not their ultimate significance , in this literature of trade but that were not long confined to its narrow circuit - acquired cultural authority in part ...
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... economic thought , were neither in conflict with nor irrelevant to their tracts on trade . In- deed , their faith may actually have helped them to conceive of trade's ab- stract operations . It is not a very long step from continuing ...
... economic thought , were neither in conflict with nor irrelevant to their tracts on trade . In- deed , their faith may actually have helped them to conceive of trade's ab- stract operations . It is not a very long step from continuing ...
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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