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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... : John C. Nimmo , 1886 ) . Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope , gen . ed . John Butt , 6 vols . ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 1939-61 ) . Introduction In an age better known for its political ,
... : John C. Nimmo , 1886 ) . Twickenham Edition of the Poems of Alexander Pope , gen . ed . John Butt , 6 vols . ( New Haven : Yale University Press , 1939-61 ) . Introduction In an age better known for its political ,
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... political , religious , and scientific revolu- tions , it may have been the commercial revolution of the seventeenth century that had the deepest effect on English culture and the literature it produced.1 This book tells the story of ...
... political , religious , and scientific revolu- tions , it may have been the commercial revolution of the seventeenth century that had the deepest effect on English culture and the literature it produced.1 This book tells the story of ...
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... political , and scientific debates : agency and organization.16 Eco- nomic discourse could place pressure on traditional categories of thought and established genres precisely because it was associated with a power- ful new way of ...
... political , and scientific debates : agency and organization.16 Eco- nomic discourse could place pressure on traditional categories of thought and established genres precisely because it was associated with a power- ful new way of ...
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... political or religious form as when they took the form of exclusive trading privi- leges.1 Most radically of all , Gerrard Winstanley could pronounce that the king of righteousness would be free to rule in every heart only if the earth ...
... political or religious form as when they took the form of exclusive trading privi- leges.1 Most radically of all , Gerrard Winstanley could pronounce that the king of righteousness would be free to rule in every heart only if the earth ...
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... political and economic forces to which they were subjected , the desires they felt , and the fears they conceived . That said , I have tried to remain alive to the ways in which representations of reality , even personal encounters with ...
... political and economic forces to which they were subjected , the desires they felt , and the fears they conceived . That said , I have tried to remain alive to the ways in which representations of reality , even personal encounters with ...
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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