Mammon's Music: Literature and Economics in the Age of Milton

by Blair Hoxby

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300093780
• ISBN13: 9780300093780
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.9" x 9.1"