Spenser's Ethics: Empire, Mutability, and Moral Philosophy in Early Modernity (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781526165435)

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.

Author: Andrew Wadoski
ISBN-10: 1526165430
ISBN-13: 9781526165435
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/28/2022
Pages: 232
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d