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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... Mean 19 1. Donne and the Personal Mean 21 2. “Mediocrities” and “Extremities”: Baconian Flexibility and the Aristotelian Mean 48 PART TWO Means and Extremes in Early Modern Georgic 77 3. Moderation, Temperate Climate, and National Ethos ...
... mean” to warn his contemporaries against the danger of overuse. Twenty-first-century readers might well conclude that early modern authors, including Donne, cel- ebrated the mean to excess. Yet, as his admonition suggests, the mean was ...
... mean between excess and deficiency in actions and emotions. Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as in the medieval period, Aristotle's works remained the core of the university curriculum. Accompanied by various medieval ...
... means as their proximate extremes and to exalt proximate vices as virtuous means.20 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 ...
... Means and Extremes and the Variety of Early Modern Discourses Outside the polemics over church and state, I shall argue, early modern authors treat the mean-extremes contrast in even more diverse and contradictory ways. Working in 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 |