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

The economic revolution of the 17th century deeply replaced English tradition. during this formidable booklet, Blair Hoxby explores what that fiscal transformation intended to the century’s maximum poet, John Milton, and to the wider literary culture within which he labored. Hoxby locations Milton’s work—as good because the writings of up to date reformers just like the Levellers, poets like John Dryden, and political economists like Sir William Petty—within the framework of England’s fiscal heritage among 1601 and 1724.

Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy

The courtship and remarriage of a wealthy widow was once a well-liked motif in early smooth comedian theatre. Jennifer Panek brings jointly a wide selection of texts, from ballads and jest-books to sermons and court docket documents, to envision the staple widow of comedy in her cultural context and to envision early glossy attitudes to remarriage.

Imagining the British Atlantic after the American Revolution (UCLA Clark Memorial Library Series)

Among 1750 and 1820, tides of revolution swept the Atlantic international. From the recent commercial cities of significant Britain to the plantations of Haiti, they heralded either the increase of democratic nationalism and the next surge of imperial response. In Imagining the British Atlantic after the yankee Revolution, 9 essays ponder those progressive ameliorations from quite a few literary, visible, and ancient views.

Virginia Woolf: The Patterns of Ordinary Experience

In her well timed contribution to revisionist techniques in modernist experiences, Lorraine Sim deals a studying of Virginia Woolf's perception of standard adventure as published in her fiction and nonfiction. Contending that Woolf's representations of lifestyle either recognize and supply a problem to characterizations of lifestyle as mundane, Sim exhibits how Woolf explores the opportunity of daily event as a domain of non-public that means, social figuring out, and moral worth.