Spenser's Ethics by Andrew Wadoski

Spenser's Ethics by Andrew Wadoski

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Spenser's Ethics by Andrew Wadoski

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.

Andrew Wadoski is Assistant Professor of English at Virginia Tech

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ISBN 13 9781526165435
ISBN 10 1526165430
Title Spenser's Ethics
Author Andrew Wadoski
Series The Manchester Spenser
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Manchester University Press
Year published 2022-06-28
Number of pages 232
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