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

by Blair Hoxby

Book Overview

This book explores what the commercial revolution of the seventeenth century meant to the greatest poet of the era, John Milton, and the broader literary tradition in which he worked. New economic ideas influenced a wide range of Milton's most famous writings as he and other authors engaged with the economic discourse of the age, reimagining ideas about self, community, and empire.

• 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"