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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... depict their visions of Britain as a modern rival to Virgil's Rome. All these works identify the farmer or a surro- gate—including, most importantly, the georgic poet himself—with the golden mean and represent him as a national ideal ...
... depicted as ignoble, mercenary deficiency and as the sordid reality behind claims to moderation—with the noble ... depicting passion as rendering both genders passively—but gloriously—“feminine.” In contrast to his Caroline dramas, which ...
... depicting these sins as Aristotelian extremes. Complaining that men ne- glect “our Mistresse faire Religion” in favor of secular pursuits (l. 5), the poet berates as a “desperate coward” (l. 29) a “thou” (l. 15) who represents both ...
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Contenido
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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 |