Joshua Scodel
Biographic Data
| ID | 1070480 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joshua Scodel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joshua |
| FAMILY NAME | Scodel |
| SIGNATURE | SCODEL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The English Poetic Epitaph
English poets from Jonson to Wordsworth used poetic epitaphs—poems inscribed or purporting to be inscribed upon tombs—to express their views concerning the p,ower and limitations of poetry as a response to human mortality. In the first major study of the English poetic epitaph, Joshua Scodel examines the genre's once vital role in the social construction of the dead, arguing that the poetic epitaph's changing representations of the deceased are i…
Care and Security in Jonson and Herrick
"Care" and "secure" are keywords in Ben Jonson's and Robert Herrick's poetry. A revisionary neoclassicist, Jonson transforms classical epigram, ode, and epode to celebrate interrelated modes of care such as ethical vigilance and concern for others and to warn against dangerous "security" or freedom from care. He thereby engages with conflicting strands within his classical verse models concerning cura , the Latin term most frequently translated a…
Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature
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…
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650–1740
This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile and politically engaged moments. From the work of Milton and Marvell in the 1650s and 1660s through the brilliant careers of Dryden, Rochester, and Behn, Locke and Astell, Swift and Defoe, Pope and Montagu, the pressures and extremes of social, political, and sexual experience are everywhere reflected in literary texts: in the daring lyrics and intricate politic…
The Echoing Woods
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The English Poetic Epitaph
Francis Bacon and Modernity. Charles Whitney
The Affirmation of Paradox
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The Affirmation of Paradox
Francis Bacon and Modernity. Charles Whitney
The Echoing Woods
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The English Poetic Epitaph
The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1650–1740
This volume offers an account of English literary culture in one of its most volatile and politically engaged moments. From the work of Milton and Marvell in the 1650s and 1660s through the brilliant careers of Dryden, Rochester, and Behn, Locke and Astell, Swift and Defoe, Pope and Montagu, the pressures and extremes of social, political, and sexual experience are everywhere reflected in literary texts: in the daring lyrics and intricate politic…
Excess and the Mean in Early Modern English Literature
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…
The English Poetic Epitaph
English poets from Jonson to Wordsworth used poetic epitaphs—poems inscribed or purporting to be inscribed upon tombs—to express their views concerning the p,ower and limitations of poetry as a response to human mortality. In the first major study of the English poetic epitaph, Joshua Scodel examines the genre's once vital role in the social construction of the dead, arguing that the poetic epitaph's changing representations of the deceased are i…
Care and Security in Jonson and Herrick
"Care" and "secure" are keywords in Ben Jonson's and Robert Herrick's poetry. A revisionary neoclassicist, Jonson transforms classical epigram, ode, and epode to celebrate interrelated modes of care such as ethical vigilance and concern for others and to warn against dangerous "security" or freedom from care. He thereby engages with conflicting strands within his classical verse models concerning cura , the Latin term most frequently translated a…
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