TY  - GEN
T1  - Excess and the mean in early modern English literature
T2  - Literature in history (Princeton, N.J.)
A1  - Scodel, Joshua, 1958-
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2002
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm52244976
AB  - 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
OP  - 367
CN  - PR428.M63 S36 2002eb
SN  - 1400814634
SN  - 9781400814633
SN  - 9780691090283
SN  - 0691090289
SN  - 9781400824939
SN  - 1400824931
KW  - English literature : Early modern, 1500-1700 : History and criticism.
KW  - Moderation in literature.
KW  - Literature and society : England : History : 16th century.
KW  - Literature and society : England : History : 17th century.
KW  - Didactic literature, English : History and criticism.
KW  - English literature : Classical influences.
KW  - Temperance in literature.
KW  - Polarity in literature.
KW  - Ethics in literature.
KW  - Modération dans la littérature.
KW  - Littérature et société : Angleterre : Histoire : 16e siècle.
KW  - Littérature et société : Angleterre : Histoire : 17e siècle.
KW  - Littérature didactique anglaise : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Tempérance dans la littérature.
KW  - Contraires dans la littérature.
KW  - Morale dans la littérature.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - Didactic literature, English
KW  - English literature : Classical influences
KW  - English literature : Early modern
KW  - Ethics in literature
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - Moderation in literature
KW  - Polarity in literature
KW  - Temperance in literature
KW  - England
KW  - 1500-1700
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
KW  - History
ER  -