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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... from the Loeb Classical Library except where it is noted that I have modified the Loeb translation or substituted my own. Citations of church fathers are from the Patrologia Cursus. qqqqqqqq. Acknowledgments and Note on Citations.
Joshua Scodel. own. Citations of church fathers are from the Patrologia Cursus Completus . . . Series Graeca, ed. J. P. Migne (Paris, 1857–1866) and the Patrologia Cursus Completus ... Series Latina, ed. J. P. Migne (Paris, 1878–1890) ...
... church and the constitution. This study is the first, how- ever, to examine a broad variety of literary treatments of the mean-extremes polarity as representations of major cultural tensions extending far beyond— though often related to ...
... 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 and deficiency and calling for Aristotelian temperance with ...
... church fathers purer assurance of the mean's compati- bility with Christian faith.9 Early modern English authors of different religious, political, and social commitments and backgrounds often espouse the mean as a norm for everyday ...
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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 |