Colonial Virtue : : The Mobility of Temperance in Renaissance England / / Kasey Evans.

Colonial Virtue is the first study to focus on the role played by the virtue of temperance in shaping ethical debates about early English colonialism. Kasey Evans tracks the migration of ideas surrounding temperance from classical and humanist writings through to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century a...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017]
©2012
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Other title:Frontmatter --
Contents --
Acknowledgments --
Illustrations --
Introduction --
1 Temperance's Renaissance Transformations --
PART I. Temperance Explores America --
2 Edmund Spenser's 'Blood Guiltie' Temperance --
3 Intemperance and 'Weak Remembrance' in The Tempest --
PART II. Temperance Colonizes America --
4 John Donne, Christopher Brooke, and Temperate Revenge in 1622 Jamestown --
5 Globalizing Temperance in Seventeenth-Century Economics --
Coda --
Notes --
Works Cited --
Index
Summary:Colonial Virtue is the first study to focus on the role played by the virtue of temperance in shaping ethical debates about early English colonialism. Kasey Evans tracks the migration of ideas surrounding temperance from classical and humanist writings through to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century applications, emphasizing the ways in which they have transcended the vocabularies of geography and time.Colonial Virtue offers fresh insights into how English Renaissance writers used temperance as a privileged lens through which to view New World morality and politically to justify colonial practices in Virginia and the West Indies. Evans uses literary texts, including The Fairie Queene and The Tempest, and sources such as sermons, dictionaries, and visual artifacts, to navigate alliances between traditional semantics and post-colonial political criticism. Beautifully written and deeply engaging, Colonial Virtue also models an expansive methodology for literary studies through its close readings and rhetorical analyses.
Format:Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
ISBN:9781442696426
DOI:10.3138/9781442696426
Access:restricted access
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Kasey Evans.