Vegetable Gold: Eden and the Lexicon of the Commodity in Milton’s Paradise Lost (1667)

Debayan Basu

doi:10.65921/y9aw9q37

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Debayan Basu Surendranath College for Women Author

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https://doi.org/10.65921/y9aw9q37

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Milton, Earthly Paradise, Spice Trade, Commodity, Early Modern Globalism

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