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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48835022 Title: Excess and the mean in early modern English literature Author: Joshua Scodel Publisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2002. ISBN/ISSN: 0691090289 9780691090283 OCLC:48835022

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Excess and the mean in early modern English literature

Author:	Joshua Scodel
Publisher:	Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2002.
Series:	Literature in history (Princeton, N.J.)
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	Examines how English writers from the Elizabethan period to the Restoration transformed and contested the ancient ideal of the virtuous mean. This book argues that English authors used the ancient Read more...
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Material Type:	Internet resource
Document Type:	Book, Internet Resource
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ISBN:	0691090289 9780691090283
OCLC Number:	48835022
Description:	viii, 367 p. ; 25 cm.
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.
Series Title:	Literature in history (Princeton, N.J.)
Responsibility:	Joshua Scodel.
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