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Book SynopsisBeautifully written and deeply engaging, Colonial Virtue also models an expansive methodology for literary studies through its close readings and rhetorical analyses.
Table of ContentsPreface: 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 4.Conclusion Coda: Works Cited:
