Excess and the mean in early modern English literature
- 作者: Scodel, Joshua,
- 出版: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©2002.
- 稽核項: 1 online resource (viii, 367 pages).
- 叢書名: Literature in history
- 標題: Polarity in literature. , English literature Classical influences. , English literature Early modern. , Modération dans la littérature. , Littérature et société , Littérature didactique anglaise , LITERARY CRITICISM European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. , Didactic literature, English History and criticism. , Ethics in literature. , Morale dans la littérature. , Moderation in literature. , English literature Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism. , Literature and society , Literature and society. , English literature , Didactic literature, English , History. , Littérature didactique anglaise Histoire et critique. , 1500-1700 , Classical influences. , Criticism, interpretation, etc. , Contraires dans la littérature. , History and criticism. , England. , Early modern. , LITERARY CRITICISM , Histoire et critique. , Electronic books. , Littérature et société Angleterre -- Histoire -- 17e siècle. , History , Literature and society England -- History -- 16th century. , Littérature et société Angleterre -- Histoire -- 16e siècle. , Histoire , Temperance in literature. , EuropeanEnglish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. , Didactic literature, English. , Literature and society England -- History -- 17th century. , Tempérance dans la littérature.
- ISBN: 1400824931 , 9781400824939
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- 附註: Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-352) and index. Introduction: ancient paradigms in modern conflicts -- pt. 1. Two early modern revisions of the mean -- 1. Donne and the personal mean -- 2. "Mediocrities" and "extremities": Baconian flexibility and the Aristotelian mean -- pt. 2. Means and extremes in early modern Georgic -- 3. Moderation, temperate climate, and national ethos from Spenser to Milton -- 4. Concord, conquest, and commerce from Spenser to Cowley -- pt. 3. Erotic excess and early modern social conflicts -- 5. Passionate extremes and noble natures from Elizabethan to Caroline literature -- 6. Erotic excess versus interest in mid- to late-seventeenth-century literature -- pt. 4. Moderation and excess in the seveneteenth-century symposiastic lyric -- 7. Drinking and the politics of poetic identity from Jonson to Herrick -- 8. Drinking and cultural conflict from Lovelace to Rochester -- pt. 5. Reimagining moderation: the Miltonic example -- 9. Paradise lost, pleasurable restraint, and the mean of self-respect -- Postscript: sublime excess, dull moderation, and contemporary ambivalence.
- 摘要: 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. --From publisher's description.
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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. Scodel argues that English authors used the ancient schema of means and extremes in innovative and contentious ways hitherto ignored by scholars. Through close readings of diverse writers and genres, he shows that conflicting representations of means and extremes figured prominently in the emergence of a self-consciously modern English culture. Donne, for example, reshaped the classical mean to promote individual freedom, while Bacon held extremism necessary for human empowerment. Imagining a modern rival to ancient Rome, georgics from Spenser to Cowley exhorted England to embody the mean or lauded extreme paths to national greatness. Drinking poetry from Jonson to Rochester expressed opposing visions of convivial moderation and drunken excess, while erotic writing from Sidney to Dryden and Behn pitted extreme passion against the traditional mean of conjugal moderation. Challenging his predecessors in various genres, Milton celebrated golden means of restrained pleasure and self-respect. Throughout this groundbreaking study, Scodel suggests how early modern treatments of means and extremes resonate in present-day cultural debates.
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