Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English LiteraturePrinceton University Press, 2002 M03 24 - 367 páginas This book examines how English writers from the Elizabethan period to the Restoration transformed and contested the ancient ideal of the virtuous mean. As early modern authors learned at grammar school and university, Aristotle and other classical thinkers praised "golden means" balanced between extremes: courage, for example, as opposed to cowardice or recklessness. By uncovering the enormous variety of English responses to this ethical doctrine, Joshua Scodel revises our understanding of the vital interaction between classical thought and early modern literary culture. |
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Contenido
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Two Early Modern Revisions of the Mean | 19 |
Donne and the Personal Mean | 21 |
Mediocrities and Extremities Baconian Flexibility and the Aristotelian Mean | 48 |
Means and Extremes in Early Modern Georgic | 77 |
Moderation Temperate Climate and National Ethos from Spenser to Milton | 79 |
Concord Conquest and Commerce from Spenser to Cowley | 111 |
Erotic Excess and Early Modern Social Conflicts | 143 |
Moderation and Excess in the SeventeenthCentury Symposiastic Lyric | 197 |
Drinking and the Politics of Poetic Identity from Jonson to Herrick | 199 |
Drinking and Cultural Conflict from Lovelace to Rochester | 225 |
Reimagining Moderation The Miltonic Example | 253 |
Paradise Lost Pleasurable Restraint and the Mean of SelfRespect | 255 |
Sublime Excess Dull Moderation and Contemporary Ambivalence | 285 |
NOTES | 289 |
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Passionate Extremes and Noble Natures from Elizabethan to Caroline Literature | 145 |
Erotic Excess versus Interest in Mid to LateSeventeenthCentury Literature | 170 |