Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-222) and index.
"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.
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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.
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Increase and multiply.
Milton, John,1608-1674-- Criticism and interpretation.
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616-- Criticism and interpretation.
Sidney, Philip,1554-1586-- Criticism and interpretation.
Milton, John,1608-1674.
Shakespeare, William,1564-1616.
Sidney, Philip,1554-1586.
Demography-- England-- History-- 16th century.
Demography-- England-- History-- 17th century.
English literature-- Early modern, 1500-1700-- History and criticism.