Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English LiteraturePrinceton University Press, 24 mrt 2002 - 367 pagina's 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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Ancient Paradigms in Modern Conflicts | 1 |
PART | 19 |
Baconian Flexibility and the Aristotelian Mean | 48 |
PART | 77 |
PART THREE | 143 |
PART FOUR | 197 |
PART FIVE | 253 |
and Contemporary Ambivalence | 285 |