Colonial virtue : the mobility of temperance in Renaissance England /

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"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-cen...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Evans, Kasey, 1976- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2012
Temas:
1500-1700
English literature > Early modern, 1500-1700 > History and criticism.
Temperance > England > History.
Temperance > Great Britain > Colonies > History.
Literature and society > Great Britain > Colonies > History.
Temperance in literature.
Tempérance > Angleterre > Histoire.
Tempérance > Grande-Bretagne > Colonies > Histoire.
Tempérance dans la littérature.
HISTORY > Renaissance.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature > Early modern
Literature and society
Temperance
Temperance in literature
Great Britain
England
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1: Temperance's Renaissance Transformations
  • 1. Aristotle in Renaissance England
  • 2. Temperance in Renaissance Iconography
  • 3. Temperance and olonialism
  • Part 1: Temperance Explores America
  • Chapter 2: Edmund Spenser's "Blood Guiltie" Temperance
  • 1. Guyon's Guilty Hands
  • 2. What Guyon Disdains
  • 3. Mourning the Tempest
  • Chapter 3: Intemperance and "Weak Remembrance" in The Tempest
  • 1. The Brain
  • Washed and Rewritten
  • 2. On Cannibals, White Cannibals, and Liars
  • 3. On Making the Old World New
  • Part 2: Temperance Colonizes America
  • Chapter 4: John Donne, Christopher Brooke, and Temperate Revenge in 1622 Jamestown
  • 1. Donne and the post-posement of "temporall gayne"
  • 2. Christopher Brooke's "temperate change"
  • Chapter 5: Globalizing Temperance in Seventeenth-Century Economics
  • 1. Good for the head, evil for the neck: The Body Politic Smokes Tobacco
  • 2. "The guts do carry the belly": Gerard Malynes
  • 3. Coffee, chocolate, and efficiency in the New World.

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