Scodel Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2493-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 376 Seiten

Reihe: Literature in History

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Scodel, Joshua

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments and Note on Citations vii

Introduction: Ancient Paradigms in Modern Conflicts 1

PART ONE: Two Early Modern Revisions of the Mean 19

1. Donne and the Personal Mean 21

2. "Mediocrities "and "Extremities ": Baconian Flexibility and the Aristotelian Mean 48

PART TWO: Means and Extremes in Early Modern Georgic 77

3. Moderation,Temperate Climate,and National Ethos from Spenser to Milton 79

4. Concord, Conquest, and Commerce from Spenser to Cowley 111

PART THREE: Erotic Excess and Early Modern Social Conflicts 143

5. Passionate Extremes and Noble Natures from Elizabethan to Caroline Literature 145

6. Erotic Excess versus Interest in Mid-to Late-Seventeenth-Century Literature 170

PART FOUR: Moderation and Excess in the Seventeenth-Century Symposiastic Lyric 197

7. Drinking and the Politics of Poetic Identity from Jonson to Herrick 199

8. Drinking and Cultural Conflict from Lovelace to Rochester 225

PART FIVE: Reimagining Moderation:The Miltonic Example 253

9. Paradise Lost ,Pleasurable Restraint, and the Mean of Self-Respect 255

Postscript: Sublime Excess, Dull Moderation, and Contemporary Ambivalence 285

Notes 289

Index 353

Über Autor(innen)

Joshua Scodel is Professor of English, Comparative Literature, and the Humanities at the University of Chicago. He is the author of The English Poetic Epitaph: Commemoration and Conflict from Jonson to Wordsworth and has published numerous articles on various aspects of Renaissance literature.