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Excess and the mean in early modern English literature [electronic resource] / Joshua Scodel.

By: Scodel, Joshua, 1958-.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Series: Literature in history (Princeton, N.J.): Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2002Description: viii, 367 p. ; 25 cm.Subject(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 literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 820.9/353 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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.

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. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.