Scodel, Joshua, 1958-

Excess and the mean in early modern English literature [electronic resource] / Joshua Scodel. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2002. - viii, 367 p. ; 25 cm. - Literature in history . - Literature in history (Princeton, N.J.) .

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.


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English literature--History and criticism.--Early modern, 1500-1700
Moderation in literature.
Literature and society--History--England--16th century.
Literature and society--History--England--17th century.
Didactic literature, English--History and criticism.
English literature--Classical influences.
Temperance in literature.
Polarity in literature.
Ethics in literature.


Electronic books.

PR428.M63 / S36 2002eb

820.9/353