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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Table of Contents:
- 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