Includes bibliographical references (p. 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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