The Resource Excess and the mean in early modern English literature, Joshua Scodel
Excess and the mean in early modern English literature, Joshua Scodel
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The item Excess and the mean in early modern English literature, Joshua Scodel represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 367 pages)
- Contents
-
- 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
- Isbn
- 9781400814633
- Label
- Excess and the mean in early modern English literature
- Title
- Excess and the mean in early modern English literature
- Statement of responsibility
- Joshua Scodel
- Subject
-
- 1500-1700
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Didactic literature, English
- Didactic literature, English -- History and criticism
- Electronic books
- England
- English literature -- Classical influences
- English literature -- Classical influences
- English literature -- Early modern
- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
- Ethics in literature
- Ethics in literature
- History
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literature and society
- Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century
- Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century
- Moderation in literature
- Moderation in literature
- Polarity in literature
- Polarity in literature
- Temperance in literature
- Temperance in literature
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1958-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Scodel, Joshua
- Dewey number
- 820.9/353
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR428.M63
- LC item number
- S36 2002eb
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
- Literature in history
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- English literature
- Moderation in literature
- Literature and society
- Literature and society
- Didactic literature, English
- English literature
- Temperance in literature
- Polarity in literature
- Ethics in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- Didactic literature, English
- English literature
- English literature
- Ethics in literature
- Literature and society
- Moderation in literature
- Polarity in literature
- Temperance in literature
- England
- Label
- Excess and the mean in early modern English literature, Joshua Scodel
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-352) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 52244976
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 367 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400814633
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttwfgm
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)52244976
- Label
- Excess and the mean in early modern English literature, Joshua Scodel
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-352) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 52244976
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 367 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400814633
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttwfgm
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)52244976
Subject
- 1500-1700
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Didactic literature, English
- Didactic literature, English -- History and criticism
- Electronic books
- England
- English literature -- Classical influences
- English literature -- Classical influences
- English literature -- Early modern
- English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
- Ethics in literature
- Ethics in literature
- History
- LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Literature and society
- Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century
- Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century
- Moderation in literature
- Moderation in literature
- Polarity in literature
- Polarity in literature
- Temperance in literature
- Temperance in literature
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