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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... thought.5 Yet English authors frequently pre- ferred Aristotelian “mediocrity” to the Stoic ideal of wholly extirpating the emotions. Mixing Aristotelianism with Augustine's famous critique of Sto- icism (De civitate dei 9.5, 14.8–9) ...
... thought, Bacon also advocates both means and extremes in daring fashion. Influentially expanding upon the notion of an intellectual mean expounded by ancient and Scholastic predecessors, Bacon condemns the Aristotelian scientific method ...
... thought and imagination of a distinctive cultural period. Yet I take seriously the claim for modernity in the term “early modern” and see this book as a partial genealogy of tensions and ambivalences within ANCIENT PARADIGMS, MODERN ...
... thoughts to come to a state of rest. Burnyeat argues that the Pyrrhonist holds an impossible position, for insofar as he is satisfied that he will gain no answers he has, in fact, become a negative dogmatist like the Academic Skeptic ...
... thought to distinguish between the secular and the spiritual in a different, more provocative, fashion by denying secular state powers any authority over personal belief. Keeping the Mean and the Limits of Obedience Donne ends “Satire 3 ...
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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 |