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Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature - Literature in History Joshua Scodel
Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature - Literature in History
Joshua Scodel
Examines how English writers from the Elizabethan period to the Restoration transformed and contested the ancient ideal of the virtuous mean. This book argues that English authors used the ancient schema of means and extremes in innovative and contentious ways hitherto ignored by scholars.
376 pages, black & white illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | March 24, 2002 |
| ISBN13 | 9780691090283 |
| Publishers | Princeton University Press |
| Pages | 376 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 235 × 22 mm · 680 g |
| Language | English |