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Author Glimp, David

Title Increase and multiply : governing cultural reproduction in early modern England / David Glimp
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 230 pages)
Contents "Making up people" : the English Commonwealth and the writing of populations -- Defending poetic generation : Sir Philip Sidney and the aesthetics of educational reproduction -- Staging government : Shakespearean theater and the government of cultural reproduction -- The educational genesis of men : puritan reform and John Milton's Of education -- Paradisal arithmetic : Paradise Lost and the genesis of populations
Summary Across the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a growing notion of the value of a large populace created a sense of urgency about reproduction; accordingly, a wide array of English writers of the time voiced the need not merely to add more people but also to ensure that England had an abundance of the right kinds of people. This need, in turn, called for a variety of institutions to trainand thus make, through a kind of nonbiological procreationpious, enterprising, and dutiful subjects. In Increase and Multiply, David Glimp examines previously unexplored links between this emergent demograp
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-222) and index
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Subject Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Criticism and interpretation
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Milton, John, 1608-1674 fast
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast
Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586 fast
Subject Demography -- England -- History -- 16th century
Demography -- England -- History -- 17th century
English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
Population in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
HISTORY -- Europe -- Great Britain.
Demography
English literature -- Early modern
Population
Population in literature
SUBJECT England -- Population -- History -- 16th century
England -- Population -- History -- 17th century
Subject England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0816693919
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