Mammon's Music - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mammon's Music write by Blair Hoxby. This book was released on 2008-10-01. Mammon's Music available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The commercial revolution of the seventeenth century deeply changed English culture. In this ambitious book, Blair Hoxby explores what that economic transformation meant to the century’s greatest poet, John Milton, and to the broader literary tradition in which he worked. Hoxby 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. Literary history swerved in this period, Hoxby demonstrates, as a burgeoning economic discourse pressed authors to reimagine ideas about self, community, and empire. Hoxby shows that, contrary to commonly held views, Milton was a sophisticated economic thinker. Close readings of Milton’s prose and verse reveal the importance of economic ideas in a wide range of his most famous writings, from Areopagitica to Samson Agonistes to Paradise Lost.
Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia
Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia write by Su Fang Ng. This book was released on 2019-04-04. Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No figure has had a more global impact than Alexander the Great, whose legends have encircled the globe and been translated into a dizzying multitude of languages, from Indo-European and Semitic to Turkic and Austronesian. Alexander the Great from Britain to Southeast Asia examines parallel traditions of the Alexander Romance in Britain and Southeast Asia, demonstrating how rival Alexanders - one Christian, the other Islamic - became central figures in their respective literatures. In the early modern age of exploration, both Britain and Southeast Asia turned to literary imitations of Alexander to imagine their own empires and international relations, defining themselves as peripheries against the Ottoman Empire's imperial center: this shared classical inheritance became part of an intensifying cross-cultural engagement in the encounter between the two, allowing a revealing examination of their cultural convergences and imperial rivalries and a remapping of the global literary networks of the early modern world. Rather than absolute alterity or strangeness, the narrative of these parallel traditions is one of contact - familiarity and proximity, unexpected affinity and intimate strangers.
'Paper-contestations' and Textual Communities in England, 1640-1675
'Paper-contestations' and Textual Communities in England, 1640-1675 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 'Paper-contestations' and Textual Communities in England, 1640-1675 write by Elizabeth Sauer. This book was released on 2005-01-01. 'Paper-contestations' and Textual Communities in England, 1640-1675 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Paper-contestations' and Textual Communities in England challenges traditional readings of literary history and proposes a fresh approach to the politics of consensus and contestation that distinguishes current scholarly debates about this period.
Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars
Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars write by Nicholas McDowell. This book was released on 2008-11-20. Poetry and Allegiance in the English Civil Wars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is about the things which could unite, rather than divide, poets during the English Civil Wars: friendship, patronage relations, literary admiration, and anti-clericalism. The central figure is Andrew Marvell, renowned for his 'ambivalent' allegiance in the late 1640s. Little is known about Marvell's associations in this period, when many of his best-known lyrics were composed. The London literary circle which formed in 1647 under the patronage of the wealthy royalist Thomas Stanley included 'Cavalier' friends of Marvell such as Richard Lovelace but also John Hall, a Parliamentarian propagandist inspired by reading Milton. Marvell is placed in the context of Stanley's impressive circle of friends and their efforts to develop English lyric capability in the absence of traditional court patronage. By recovering the cultural values that were shared by Marvell and the like-minded men with whom he moved in the literary circles of post-war London, we are more likely to find the reasons for their decisions about political allegiance. By focusing on a circle of friends and associates we can also get a sense of how they communicated with and influenced one another through their verse. There are innovative readings of Milton's sonnets and Lovelace's lyric verse, while new light is shed on the origins and audience not only of Marvell's early political poems, including the 'Horatian Ode', but lyrics such as 'To His Coy Mistress'.
Thinking Allegory Otherwise
Thinking Allegory Otherwise - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Thinking Allegory Otherwise write by Brenda Machosky. This book was released on 2010. Thinking Allegory Otherwise available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Thinking Allegory Otherwise is a unique collection of essays by allegory specialists and other scholars who engage allegory in exciting new ways." "Not limited to an examination of literary texts and works of art, the essays focus on a wide range of topics, including architecture, philosophy, theater, science, and law. Indeed, all language is allegorical. This collection proves the truth of this statement, but more importantly, it shows the consequences of it. To think allegory otherwise is to think otherwise-forcing us to rethink not only the idea of allegory itself, but also the law and its execution, the literality offigurative abstraction, and the figurations upon which even hard science depends." --Book Jacket.
