Image Ethics in Shakespeare and Spenser [electronic resource] /
Knapp, J.author.
Focusing on works by Shakespeare and Spenser, this study shows the connection between visuality and ethical action in early modern English literature. The book places early modern debates about the value of visual experience into dialogue with subsequent philosophical and ethical efforts.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : image ethics -- Harnessing the visual : from illustration to ekphrasis -- From visible to invisible : Spenser's Aprill and messianic ethics -- Looking for ethics in Spenser's Faerie queene -- "To look, but with another's eyes" : translating vision in A midsummer night's dream -- The ethics of temporality in Measure for measure -- "Ocular proof" and the dangers of the perceptual faith -- "Disliken the truth of your own seeming" : visual and ethical truth in The winter's tale.
Focusing on works by Shakespeare and Spenser, this study shows the connection between visuality and ethical action in early modern English literature. The book places early modern debates about the value of visual experience into dialogue with subsequent philosophical and ethical efforts.
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
Civilization-History.
Poetry.
Literature, Modern.
Great Britain-History.
British literature.
Cultural History.
Poetry and Poetics.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
History of Britain and Ireland.
British and Irish Literature.