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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... 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 schools as well, it was often treated as a more accessible companion to the ...
... ideal of the mean thus became an intense source of conflict. The Mean in Early Modern Religious and Political Controversies The vagueness of the mean was both extremely evident and deeply troubling when extended beyond the Aristotelian ...
... ideal of the mean to represent the self-respecting individual and conjugal pair, rather than the church or state, as the proper locus of na- tional values. Georgics and georgic-influenced poems exalt an ideal national representative who ...
... ideal mean estate, Donne invokes a fluid mean between conventional social identities that legitimizes a socially mobile self. Donne's compelling adaptations of the mean, while highly idio- syncratic, anticipate various early modern ...
... ideal. In so doing they challenge identi- fications of the nation with the monarchy and court. Georgic moderation is sometimes conceived of as harmonious cooperation with the “temperate” land and nation, but more often it is viewed as a ...
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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 |