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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... Roman gentleman (1.25.89, 1.29.102–104, 1.35.129– 1.39.140), was frequently reprinted both in Latin and in English translations. Taught in grammar schools as well, it was often treated as a more accessible companion to the Nicomachean ...
... Roman Catholicism and “extreme” Protestantism. English espousals of the via media concealed numerous disagreements con- cerning the formula's precise meaning. Members of the national church dis- agreed as to what constituted the ...
... Roman historian Livy, the advocate of republican liberty as a mean between tyranny and anarchic li- cense, famously condemned the “multitude” [multitu(do)] as either “a humble slave or a haughty master” that could not “moderately ...
... Roman regeneration, Virgil's Georgics leaves a complex legacy promoting both national moderation and aggrandizement. Some English authors, includ- ing Spenser and Drayton, depict a composite ideal of the farmer-soldier who maintains ...
... Roman Catholicism, Geneva-style Calvinism, and the English church. Because members of the English church often lauded it as the mean between the excessive and deficient ceremonialism that they ascribed, respectively, to Catholicism and ...
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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 |