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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... trans- lated from continental sources, attests to the massive early modern concern with the regulation of behavior.12 Influenced by Aristotle, Seneca, and espe- cially Cicero, such works invoke the mean as a guide to well-nigh every ...
... trans. modified). Quentin Skinner has argued that Nedham's contemporary Thomas Hobbes, the most brilliant and most reviled political philosopher of the period, ad- dressed the longstanding laments concerning rhetorical manipulations of ...
... trans. modified), an analogy that parallels his claim that everything beautiful lies between the too large and too small (Poetics 7.8– 10). He also applied the mean to rhetoric in order to warn against opposite stylistic vices (Rhetoric ...
... trans- forming the classical mean-extremes contrast, these works offer rival visions of the good or happy life with diverse implications for individual and nation. Part II, “Means and Extremes in Early Modern Georgic,” argues that both ...
... trans. modified). Juvenal attacks the Phrygian rites and the Gracchian trans- vestite marriage as random examples of “effeminacy” without pursuing the relationship between such diverse ways of losing one's “manhood.” Donne was clearly ...
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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 |