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Author Evans, Kasey, 1976- author.

Title Colonial virtue : the mobility of temperance in Renaissance England / Kasey Evans
Published Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2012 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2012)

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 275 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
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."--Pub. desc
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest, viewed April 6, 2018)
Subject 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.
HISTORY -- Renaissance.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English literature -- Early modern
Literature and society
Temperance
Temperance in literature
Great Britain
England
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012398496
ISBN 9781442696426
1442696427
9781442643598
1442643595