03329nam 2200649 a 450 991077785230332120230607221956.01-281-73043-297866117304370-300-12963-710.12987/9780300129632(CKB)1000000000471924(EBL)3420207(SSID)ssj0000196352(PQKBManifestationID)11178636(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000196352(PQKBWorkID)10143601(PQKB)11474074(StDuBDS)EDZ0000165581(MiAaPQ)EBC3420207(DE-B1597)485104(OCoLC)1024004652(DE-B1597)9780300129632(Au-PeEL)EBL3420207(CaPaEBR)ebr10170899(OCoLC)923590735(EXLCZ)99100000000047192420020222d2002 uy 0engurun#---|u||utxtccrMammon's music[electronic resource] literature and economics in the age of Milton /Blair HoxbyNew Haven Yale University Pressc20021 online resource (333 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-300-09378-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-309) and index.Front matter --Contents --Acknowledgments --A Note on Conventions and Texts --Introduction --1. The Trade of Truth Advanced --2. Republican Experiments, Royalist Responses --3. The King of Trade --4. Royalist Topography and the Epic of Trade --5. Speculation in Paradise --6. From Amboyna to Windsor Forest --7. Idleness Had Been Worse --Conclusion --Abbreviations --Notes --IndexThe 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.Commerce in literatureEconomics and literatureGreat BritainHistory17th centuryEconomics in literatureCommerce in literature.Economics and literatureHistoryEconomics in literature.821/.4HK 2575rvkHoxby Blair1966-1175759MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910777852303321Mammon's music3845518UNINA