Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English LiteraturePrinceton University Press, 2009 M02 9 - 376 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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... Elizabethan to Caroline Literature 145 6. Erotic Excess versus Interest in Mid- to Late-Seventeenth-Century Literature 170 PART FOUR Moderation and Excess in the Seventeenth-Century Symposiastic Lyric 197 7. Drinking and the Politics of ...
... Elizabethan period through the Restoration even as it changed from a largely Calvinist to a largely Arminian church. Disagree- ments hidden in the vague formulation caused conflicts within the church between Puritans desiring further ...
... Elizabethan period to the Restoration increasingly exalted “extreme” passion. In so doing they undermined a key premise of the early modern gender hierarchy—the superiority of rational, self-controlled males to passionate, prone-to ...
... Elizabethan prayer book describes as those “addicted to their old customs” and those “so newfangled that they would innovate all things.”21 Yet by comparing Mirrheus's fondness for Roman “ragges” with Englishmen's fawning at a monarch's ...
... Elizabethan moralist, who, like many of his contemporaries, felt that such Epicurean disbelief was on the rise, similarly deplored the “carelesse cogitations” of the irreligious philosophi- cal sect.30 Donne's Graccus, by contrast, is ...
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Means and Extremes in Early Modern Georgic | 77 |
Erotic Excess and Early Modern Social Conflicts | 143 |
Moderation and Excess in the SeventeenthCentury Symposiastic Lyric | 197 |
Reimagining Moderation The Miltonic Example | 253 |
Sublime Excess Dull Moderation and Contemporary Ambivalence | 285 |
Notes | 289 |
Index | 353 |