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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... John Donne's Religious Imagination: Essays in Honor of John T. Shawcross, ed. Raymond-Jean Frontain and Frances Malpezzi (Conway, Ark., 1995), 45–60; chapter 2 in Creative Imitation: New Essays on Renaissance Literature in Honor of ...
... John Milton, Paradise Lost, ed. Alastair Fowler, 2d ed. (London, 1998), and Complete Shorter Poems, ed. John Carey, 2d ed. (London, 1997). qqqqqqqq INTRODUCTION Ancient Paradigms in Modern Conflicts “WE MAY QUICKLY viii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.
... John Donne in a 1625 sermon.1 With a destabilizing paradox, Donne invoked the venerable norm of “mediocrity” or the “golden mean” to warn his contemporaries against the danger of overuse. Twenty-first-century readers might well conclude ...
... John Milton over episcopacy in the 1640s, debate was often polarized between self-de- scribed moderates (like Hall) and “vehement” or zealous opponents to luke- warmness (like Milton).27 Should zeal trump moderation or vice versa? To ...
Joshua Scodel. have shown, John Dryden's brilliant appeals to the via media in support of Charles II's political and religious policies (as well as his attacks on trimming) must be situated within the highly propagandistic rhetorical ...
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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 |