Ambiguous antidotes : virtue as vaccine for vice in early modern Spain /

Kallendorf, Hilaire, 1974-

Ambiguous antidotes : virtue as vaccine for vice in early modern Spain / Hilaire Kallendorf. - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource : color illustrations. - Toronto Iberic ; 30 .

Includes bibliographies and index.

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""Prologue: Virtuous Genealogies""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""I Virtue as a Medical Metaphor""; ""II Correspondences of Virtue to Vice""; ""III Antidotes""; ""IV Pharmakon""; ""V The Golden Mean""; ""1 Blind Justice""; ""2 Fleeting Fortitude""; ""3 Charity as Greed""; ""4 Loose Chastity""; ""5 Prudence: Panacea or Placebo?""; ""6 Class Trumps Sex: The (En)gendering of Virtue""; ""Conclusion""; ""I (Not Just) the Veneer of Virtue""; ""II Virtus or Virus?""; ""III Historical / Literary Roots"" ""IV Machiavellian Virtù""""V Erasmus at the Theatre""; ""Epilogue: Virtual Virtue""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index of Comedias""

In Ambiguous Antidotes, Hilaire Kallendorf explores the receptions of Virtues in the realm of moral philosophy and the artistic production it influenced during the Spanish Gold Age.





9781487514648


Virtues in literature.


Electronic Books.

PQ6105 / .A435 2017