Colonial virtue : the mobility of temperance in Renaissance England / Kasey Evans.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Kasey, 1976-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--Early modern, 1500-1700--History and criticism.

English literature.

Temperance--England--History.

Temperance.

Temperance--Colonies--Great Britain--History.

Literature and society--History--Colonies--Great Britain.

Literature and society.

History.

Colonies.

Great Britain.

Temperance in literature.

England.

Physical Description:

xii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2012]

Summary:

The virtue of temperance is examined in the context of Renaissance views of morality as they pertain to the colonization of the new world and West Indies. Evans (English, Northwestern U.) argues that the concept served as a convenient lens by which to view the indigenous peoples in new lands as well as acting as a signal to and bulwark of civilization. Interpretations of period works such as The Faerie Queene and The Tempest as well as sermons and cultural and visual artifacts are used to illustrate the central thesis and provide cultural context. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

1 Temperance's Renaissance Transformations 14

Aristotle in Renaissance England 15

Temperance in Renaissance Iconography 22

Temperance and Colonialism 44

Part I Temperance Explores America

2 Edmund Spenser's 'Blood Guiltie' Temperance 63

Guyon's Guilty Hands 68

What Guyon Disdains 77

Mourning the Tempest 86

3 Intemperance and 'Weak Remembrance' in The Tempest 94

The Brain - Washed and Rewritten 98

Lords of Weak Remembrance 102

Of Cannibals, White Cannibals, and Liars 108

Making the Old World New 117

Part II Temperance Colonizes America

4 John Donne, Christopher Brooke, and Temperate Revenge in 1622 Jamestown 127

Donne and the Post-posement of 'Temporall Gayne' 132

Christopher Brooke's 'Temperate Change' 145

5 Globalizing Temperance in Seventeenth-Century Economics 160

Good for the Head, Evil for the Neck: The Body Politic Smokes Tobacco 166

'The Guts Do Carry the Belly': Gerard Malynes 173

Coffee, Chocolate, and Efficiency in the New World 183

Conclusion 201.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781442643598

1442643595

OCLC:

753229790