Mammon's music : literature and economics in the age of Milton / Blair Hoxby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoxby, Blair, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Milton, John, 1608-1674--Knowledge--Economics.

Milton, John.

Commerce in literature.

Economics and literature--Great Britain--History--17th century.

Economics and literature.

Economics in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-309) and index.

ISBN:

9786611730437

9781281730435

1281730432

9780300129632

0300129637

OCLC:

1024004652