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

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2003]

xxviii, 230 pages ; 24 cm

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.