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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... males to passionate, prone-to-excess females—and contested the traditional identification of men's intense passion for women with shame- ful effeminization. The ideal, moderate marriage was often associated with the “mean” estate ...
... males and females that was all the more heroic—and “masculine” in its Stoic strength—because it struggled with in- tense desire. Behn, by contrast, transvalued conventional norms by depicting passion as rendering both genders passively ...
... male quest for “true religion” is conventional in its masculinist assumptions. Following Juvenal and other classical authors, Elizabethan satirists often attack those deemed effeminate by labeling them as emasculated Phrygians: Edward ...
... male) cognitive and erotic impulses and, consequently, of advocating self-emasculation. The Skeptic Archesilaus mocked his Epicurean rivals for making Galloi, or Phrygian eunuch-priests, out of men. The Stoic Epictetus extended the ...
... male inquirer struggle hard to “reach” and “winne” the feminine figure of “Truth” (ll. 79–82) sharply opposes his “masculine” urge to Phrygius's “effeminate” dread of the female. Thus, Donne sets Phrygius's permanent suspension and ...
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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 |