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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... senses of the via media, literary historians have rightly emphasized the need for careful interpretation of the particular position of such complex literary professions of the via media as, for example, George Herbert's lyric “The ...
... sense. Yet both supporters and opponents of Charles II appealed for politi- cal moderation and balance even while accusing the other side of extremism— either a republican/sectarian or absolutist/popish variant. To square intense ...
... sense of learned writing,44 this study examines argumentative prose as well as verse, fiction, and drama. I focus particularly on works that reward close reading because of their complex allusive relationships to classical models, self ...
... sense that express- ing rage might be the best response to sin runs counter to Stoic but not to Aristotelian norms. Seneca argues that both Heraclitus's weeping and Democ- ritus's laughter are better responses to folly than anger, the ...
... sense than Aristotle envisioned. They court damnation, the death of their souls. Donne's image of the truly courageous man as one who would “stand / Sentinell in his [God's] worlds garrison” (ll. 30–31) suggests how closely he ...
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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 |