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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... associated notion of proper “measure” (“modus”) to detail the behavior of the ideal 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 ...
... associated the political middle way with a republic rather than a mixed monarchy. Positioning the Common- wealth regime as the virtuous mean, he warned against the “tyrannical” rule of a conquering Charles II, on the one hand, and the ...
... associated with the “mean” estate, neither too high nor too low, or with the social order as a whole, based on the replication of ascribed status through marriage to spouses who were neither too much higher nor too much lower in rank ...
... associated erotic passion with a luxurious prodigality nobly indifferent to public concerns. Though de- fending a residual aristocratic ethos against the norms of a commercial society, both Dryden and Behn influenced emergent middle ...
... associated with rational discourse. Milton, whose ventures in georgic and symposiastic poetry figure promi- nently in earlier chapters, takes center stage in the book's final section, part V, “Reimagining Moderation: The Miltonic ...
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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 |