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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... true and false concep- tions of the church's middle way.24 Rival claimants to the via media regarded and attacked opponents as hypo- critical representatives of a vicious extreme by, for example, equating Armini- ans with papists or ...
... true, as Nigel Smith demonstrates, that “the middle ground was sacrificed to a series of increasingly confident and opposed views and rhetorics.”32 Yet throughout this period, alongside zealous religious and political positioning ...
... true mean and the Baconian flexibility regarding means and extremes shape divergent georgic visions of early modern Britain's promise and perils as a nation. Inspired by the contradictory uses of the mean in Virgil's Georgics to ...
... true nobility” of the virtuous, whose passion for a socially superior beloved justified upward mobility. Philip Sidney's influential Arcadia and the Caroline court writings of William Dave- nant and Thomas Carew treated extreme passion ...
... true religion” in his own world of competing sects and difficult life choices. “Satire 3” opens with a burst of intense but conflicting emotions as the poet confronts the sinfulness of his times: “Kinde pitty chokes my spleene; brave ...
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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 |