Spenser's ethics: Empire, mutability, and moral philosophy in early modernity

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Publisher: Manchester University Press
Year: 2022
Tongue: English
Leaves: 233
Series: The Manchester Spenser
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

A novel account of Edmund Spenser as a moral theorist, Spenser’s ethics situaties his ethics in the contexts of early modern moral philosophy and the English colonization of Ireland.

✦ Table of Contents

Front matter
Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Emptying the virtuous middle in Elizabethan Ireland
Milton’s Spenser: An alternative virtue for a fallen world
Purposeful lives: Romance narrative and the generation of empires
Magnificence: Fashioning the imperial commonwealth
The metaphysics of moral being: Time, change, and flourishing in the Gardens of Adonis
Civility and government: Virtuous discipline in the mutable world
Immoderation and necessity: Spenser’s Machiavelli
Coda
References
Index

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