TY - BOOK AU - Hoxby,Blair TI - Mammon's music: literature and economics in the age of Milton SN - 9780300129632 AV - PR3592.E25 H69 2002eb U1 - 821/.4 21 PY - 2002/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Milton, John, KW - Economics and literature KW - Great Britain KW - History KW - 17th century KW - Economics in literature KW - Commerce in literature KW - Économie politique et littérature KW - Grande-Bretagne KW - Histoire KW - 17e siècle KW - Économie politique dans la littérature KW - Commerce dans la littérature KW - POETRY KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh KW - bisacsh KW - LITERARY CRITICISM KW - European KW - fast KW - Economics KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-309) and index; The trade of truth advanced -- Republican experiments, royalist responses -- The king of trade -- Royalist topography and the epic of trade -- Speculation in paradise -- From Amboyna to Windsor forest -- Idleness had been worse N2 - The commercial revolution of the seventeenth century deeply changed English culture. This book explores what that economic transformation meant to the century's greatest poet, John Milton, and to the broader literary tradition in which he worked. The book 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=187817 ER -