New PDF release: Mammon's Music: Literature and Economics in the Age of

By Professor Blair Hoxby

The advertisement revolution of the 17th century deeply replaced English tradition. during this formidable ebook, Blair Hoxby explores what that monetary transformation intended to the century’s maximum poet, John Milton, and to the wider literary culture within which he labored. Hoxby areas Milton’s work—as good because the writings of latest reformers just like the Levellers, poets like John Dryden, and political economists like Sir William Petty—within the framework of England’s fiscal background among 1601 and 1724. Literary historical past swerved during this interval, Hoxby demonstrates, as a burgeoning financial discourse pressed authors to reimagine principles approximately self, group, and empire. Hoxby exhibits that, opposite to quite often held perspectives, Milton was once a worldly fiscal philosopher. shut readings of Milton’s prose and verse exhibit the significance of monetary principles in quite a lot of his most famed writings, from Areopagitica to Samson Agonistes to Paradise Lost.

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