Spenser's Ethics: Empire, Mutability, and Moral Philosophy in Early Modernity

Author:   Andrew Wadoski
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
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9781526165435


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   28 June 2022
Format:   Hardback
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Spenser's Ethics: Empire, Mutability, and Moral Philosophy in Early Modernity


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Spenser's ethics offers a novel account of Edmund Spenser as a moral theorist, situating his ethics at the nexus of moral philosophy's profound transformation in the early modern era, and the English colonisation of Ireland in the turbulent 1580's and 90's. It revises a scholarly narrative describing Spenser's ethical thinking as derivative, nostalgic, or inconsistent with one that contends him to be one of early modern England's most original and incisive moral theorists, placing The Faerie Queene at the centre of the contested discipline of moral philosophy as it engaged the social, political, and intellectual upheavals driving classical virtue ethics' unravelling at the threshold of early modernity.

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Author:   Andrew Wadoski
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.445kg
ISBN:  

9781526165435


ISBN 10:   1526165430
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   28 June 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Introduction: Emptying the virtuous middle in Elizabethan Ireland 1. Milton’s Spenser: An alternative virtue for a fallen world 2. Purposeful lives: Romance narrative and the generation of empires 3. Magnificence: Fashioning the imperial commonwealth 4. The metaphysics of moral being: Time, change, and flourishing in the Gardens of Adonis 5. Civility and government: Virtuous discipline in the mutable world 6. Immoderation and necessity: Spenser’s Machiavelli Coda References Index -- .

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Andrew Wadoski is Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Tech.

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