Excess and the mean in early modern English literature [electronic resource] / Joshua Scodel.
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TextSeries: Literature in history (Princeton, N.J.)Publication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2002.Description: viii, 367 pSubject(s): - English literature -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- History and criticism
- Moderation in literature
- Literature and society -- England -- History -- 16th century
- Literature and society -- England -- History -- 17th century
- Didactic literature, English -- History and criticism
- English literature -- Classical influences
- Temperance in literature
- Polarity in literature
- Ethics in literature
- 820.9/353 21
- PR428.M63 S36 2002
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-352) and index.
pt. 1. Two early modern revisions of the mean -- pt. 2. means and extremes in early modern Georgic -- pt. 3. Erotic excess and early modern social conflicts -- pt. 4. Moderation and excess in the seventeenth-century symposiastic lyric -- pt. 5. Reimagining moderation: the Miltonic example.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.