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 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 latest reformers just like the Levellers, poets like John Dryden, and political economists like Sir William Petty—within the framework of England’s monetary background among 1601 and 1724.

Widows and Suitors in Early Modern English Comedy

The courtship and remarriage of a wealthy widow used to be a well-liked motif in early sleek comedian theatre. Jennifer Panek brings jointly a large choice of texts, from ballads and jest-books to sermons and court docket documents, to check the staple widow of comedy in her cultural context and to ascertain 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 international. From the recent business cities of significant 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 yank Revolution, 9 essays reflect on those innovative variations from quite a few literary, visible, and ancient views.

Virginia Woolf: The Patterns of Ordinary Experience

In her well timed contribution to revisionist methods in modernist stories, Lorraine Sim deals a studying of Virginia Woolf's notion of normal event as published in her fiction and nonfiction. Contending that Woolf's representations of daily life either recognize and supply a problem to characterizations of way of life as mundane, Sim exhibits how Woolf explores the potential for daily event as a website of non-public that means, social realizing, and moral price.