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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... Epicurean hedonism.8 Drawing on multi- ple pagan sources, various church fathers, including the vastly influential Au- gustine, invoked the mean as an ethical norm, treating virtues such as courage and liberality as means between excess ...
... Epicurean avoidance of love. Like its counterpart cura in Latin poetry, “care” in English Renaissance poetry can ... Epicurean's emotional sacrifice when he bids farewell to his beloved, his “care of cares” [o mearum cura . . . curarum] ...
... Epicurean principles, for the Epicureans spurned traditional religion, just as they spurned erotic attachment, as a threat to tranquility. They denounced conventional religion as superstitious fear, and critics accused them of escap ...
... Epicureans and Skeptics accused them of cutting off natural human (i.e., male) cognitive and erotic impulses and, consequently, of advocating self-emasculation. The Skeptic Archesilaus mocked his Epicurean rivals for making Galloi, or ...
... Epicurean avoidance of pain but also from a Skepticism compatible with such Epicureanism. Donne further underscores the distinction in gender terms, for his exhortation that the male inquirer struggle hard to “reach” and “winne” the ...
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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 |