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Increase and multiply : governing cultural reproduction in early modern England / David Glimp.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glimp, David.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Demography--England--History--16th century.
- Demography.
- Demography--England--History--17th century.
- English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Population in literature.
- England--Population--History--16th century.
- England.
- England--Population--History--17th century.
- Milton, John, 1608-1674--Criticism and interpretation.
- Milton, John.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586--Criticism and interpretation.
- Sidney, Philip.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (260 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2003.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a growing notion of the value of a large populace created a sense of urgency about reproduction; accordingly, a wide array of English writers of the time voiced the need not merely to add more people but also to ensure that England had an abundance of the right kinds of people. This need, in turn, called for a variety of institutions to train-and thus make, through a kind of nonbiological procreation-pious, enterprising, and dutiful subjects. In Increase and Multiply, David Glimp examines previously unexplored links between this emergent demograp
- Contents:
- "Making up people" : the English Commonwealth and the writing of populations
- Defending poetic generation : Sir Philip Sidney and the aesthetics of educational reproduction
- Staging government : Shakespearean theater and the government of cultural reproduction
- The educational genesis of men : puritan reform and John Milton's Of education
- Paradisal arithmetic : Paradise Lost and the genesis of populations.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-222) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9391-9
- OCLC:
- 476095234
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