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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... line, “I must not laugh, nor weepe sinnes, and be wise,” the poet admonishes himself to control his strong feelings with an allusion to an ancient satiric topos concerning the proper response to the flaws of humanity. Juvenal's Satire ...
... line” by being “thrise / Colder then salamanders” (ll. 22–24) seek out drastic situations to justify their lack of moderation. As he proceeds, Donne transforms the Aristotelian mean of courage by adapting a patristic revision of ...
... line section inveighing against men who shamefully participate in rituals traditionally restricted to women by ... lines to mock the marriage of the transvestite Gracchus.33 “Why wait any longer,” Juvenal exclaims, “when it were ...
... Lines 76–79 recapitulate the satire's movement from a triad consisting of the major churches' positions to one consisting of two extremes and the authentic mean of skeptical inquiry: “To'adore, or scorne an image, or protest, / May all ...
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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 |