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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... 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 PART FOUR THE MEANING OF WORK CHAPTER 7 Idleness Had Contents.
... 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 PART FOUR THE MEANING OF WORK CHAPTER 7 Idleness Had Contents.
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... force and inevitability of natural laws but their resistance to moral judgment . Although the trade and monetary crisis of the early 1620s did not last long into Charles I's reign , it remained apparent that England would not , in ...
... force and inevitability of natural laws but their resistance to moral judgment . Although the trade and monetary crisis of the early 1620s did not last long into Charles I's reign , it remained apparent that England would not , in ...
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... force of its root sense in order to contend that London needed to be at the center of the world's trade routes . In ... forces constitute a base that determines society's superstructure of politics , law , and religion , they still ...
... force of its root sense in order to contend that London needed to be at the center of the world's trade routes . In ... forces constitute a base that determines society's superstructure of politics , law , and religion , they still ...
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... forces and circumstances . Yet we cannot study the ways in which acts of representation invent or suppress reality unless we are willing to construct a historical account ( however provisional ) against which we propose to define the ...
... forces and circumstances . Yet we cannot study the ways in which acts of representation invent or suppress reality unless we are willing to construct a historical account ( however provisional ) against which we propose to define the ...
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... forces can preserve a form of individual liberty and abandoning economic appeals as a rhetorical strategy because they have ... force and commerce , Crown and City , could coordinate their efforts and generate strength and INTRODUCTION II.
... forces can preserve a form of individual liberty and abandoning economic appeals as a rhetorical strategy because they have ... force and commerce , Crown and City , could coordinate their efforts and generate strength and INTRODUCTION II.
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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