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

The industrial revolution of the 17th century deeply replaced English tradition. during this formidable publication, Blair Hoxby explores what that financial 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 monetary historical past among 1601 and 1724.

Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy

The courtship and remarriage of a wealthy widow used to be a favored motif in early sleek comedian theatre. Jennifer Panek brings jointly a large choice of texts, from ballads and jest-books to sermons and courtroom documents, to ascertain the staple widow of comedy in her cultural context and to envision early smooth 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 global. From the recent business cities of serious Britain to the plantations of Haiti, they heralded either the increase of democratic nationalism and the following surge of imperial response. In Imagining the British Atlantic after the yankee Revolution, 9 essays ponder those innovative variations from various literary, visible, and historic views.

Virginia Woolf: The Patterns of Ordinary Experience

In her well timed contribution to revisionist techniques in modernist stories, Lorraine Sim deals a interpreting of Virginia Woolf's belief of normal event as printed in her fiction and nonfiction. Contending that Woolf's representations of lifestyle either recognize and supply a problem to characterizations of way of life as mundane, Sim exhibits how Woolf explores the potential for daily adventure as a domain of non-public which means, social figuring out, and moral price.