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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... mean that it will help the Lady recover her strength , but it may also mean that if she drinks it , 20 VIRTUE , COMMERCE , TRUTH.
... mean that it will help the Lady recover her strength , but it may also mean that if she drinks it , 20 VIRTUE , COMMERCE , TRUTH.
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Literature and Economics in the Age of Milton Blair Hoxby. it may also mean that if she drinks it , she will soon be in a ... means by which unscrupulous princes “ [ robbed ] the people , " it seems appropriate that Comus , as a figure of ...
Literature and Economics in the Age of Milton Blair Hoxby. it may also mean that if she drinks it , she will soon be in a ... means by which unscrupulous princes “ [ robbed ] the people , " it seems appropriate that Comus , as a figure of ...
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... Means her provision only to the good That live according to her sober laws , And holy dictate of spare Temperance : If every just man that now pines with want Had but a moderate , and beseeming share Of that which lewdly - pamper'd ...
... Means her provision only to the good That live according to her sober laws , And holy dictate of spare Temperance : If every just man that now pines with want Had but a moderate , and beseeming share Of that which lewdly - pamper'd ...
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... means , " ascribed to Nature's purposes , the Lady shifts away from Comus's rheto- ric of natural or economic law ( " that's how it works " ) to moral categories of intent and ideal ( “ this is what was intended and how it ought to be ...
... means , " ascribed to Nature's purposes , the Lady shifts away from Comus's rheto- ric of natural or economic law ( " that's how it works " ) to moral categories of intent and ideal ( “ this is what was intended and how it ought to be ...
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... means of living took his life . ” After explaining Fuller's claim in his Institutes , Sir Edward Coke pressed on to its logical conclusion : monopolists were " odious " because they were viri sanguinis , and “ against these Inventers ...
... means of living took his life . ” After explaining Fuller's claim in his Institutes , Sir Edward Coke pressed on to its logical conclusion : monopolists were " odious " because they were viri sanguinis , and “ against these Inventers ...
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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