Increase and multiply
Subtitle: governing cultural reproduction in early modern England
By: David Glimp.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
Subjects: Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Milton, John, 1608-1674 -- Criticism and interpretation.; English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism.; Population in literature.; Demography -- England -- History -- 16th century.; Demography -- England -- History -- 17th century.; England -- Population -- History -- 16th century.; England -- Population -- History -- 17th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-222) and index.
Table of contents: title: "Making up people" : the English Commonwealth and the writing of populations; title: Defending poetic generation : Sir Philip Sidney and the aesthetics of educational reproduction; title: Staging government : Shakespearean theater and the government of cultural reproduction; title: The educational genesis of men : puritan reform and John Milton's Of education; title: Paradisal arithmetic : Paradise Lost and the genesis of populations.