| 紀錄類型: |
書目-電子資源
: Monograph/item
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| 正題名/作者: |
Excess and the mean in early modern English literature/ Joshua Scodel. |
| 作者: |
Scodel, Joshua, |
| 出版者: |
Princeton, N.J. :Princeton University Press, : c2002., |
| 面頁冊數: |
viii, 367 p. ;25 cm. |
| 內容註: |
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. |
| 標題: |
Didactic literature, English - History and criticism. - |
| 電子資源: |
https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=81014An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click for information |
| ISBN: |
1400814634 (electronic bk.) |