Excess and the mean in early modern English literature /
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 b...
| Основен автор: | Scodel, Joshua, 1958- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
℗♭2002.
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| Серия: |
Literature in history (Princeton, N.J.)
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=81014 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Excess and the mean in early modern English literature. |
| Резюме: |
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. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (viii, 367 pages). |
| Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-352) and index. |
| ISBN: |
1400814634 9781400814633 9780691090283 0691090289 9781400824939 1400824931 |