Increase and multiply : governing cultural reproduction in early modern England / David Glimp.

Author/creator Glimp, David
Format Book
Publication InfoMinneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2003.
Descriptionxxviii, 230 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Sidney, Philip, 1554-1586--Views on population.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Views on population.
Milton, John, 1608-1674--Views on population.
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.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 181-222) and index.
LCCN 2002013314
ISBN0816639906 (HC : alk. paper)
ISBN0816639914 (PB : alk. paper)