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 monetary transformation intended to the century’s maximum poet, John Milton, and to the wider literary culture during which he labored. Hoxby locations Milton’s work—as good because the writings of latest reformers just like the Levellers, poets like John Dryden, and political economists like Sir William Petty—within the framework of England’s financial background among 1601 and 1724.

Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy

The courtship and remarriage of a wealthy widow was once a favored motif in early glossy 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 ascertain early sleek 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 yank Revolution, 9 essays think about those progressive variations from various literary, visible, and old views.

Virginia Woolf: The Patterns of Ordinary Experience

In her well timed contribution to revisionist ways in modernist experiences, Lorraine Sim bargains a analyzing of Virginia Woolf's belief of standard adventure as printed in her fiction and nonfiction. Contending that Woolf's representations of daily life either recognize and supply a problem to characterizations of everyday life as mundane, Sim indicates how Woolf explores the possibility of daily adventure as a website of private which means, social knowing, and moral worth.