Excess and the mean in early modern English literature /
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Princeton, N.J. :
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c2002.
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| Series: | Literature in history (Princeton, N.J.)
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Table of 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.
