Format:
1 online resource (375 pages)
ISBN:
9781442673281
Series Statement:
Mental and Cultural World of Tudor and Stuart England
Content:
Investigates Lipsian ideas in the moral, political, and literary culture of late 16nth- and early 17th-century England through examination of the writings and activities of Walter Raleigh, Francis Bacon, Fulke Greville, Ben Jonson, and Joseph Hall.
Content:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A NOTE ON TEXTS, SOURCES, TRANSLATIONS, AND CONVENTIONS -- PROLOGUE: RECOVERING THE LIPSIAN PARADIGM -- Introduction: Justus Lipsius and the Doctrine of Constancy -- Seneca, Tacitus, and the Moral Universe of Neostoicism -- The Linguistic Universe of Neostoicism -- The Politics of Neostoicism -- Doctrine: The Method of Constancy -- Neostoicism in France -- Lipsius and English Humanism -- Chapter 1 The Constant Courtier: Sir Walter Ralegh in Jacobean England -- Ralegh and the vita activa -- Ralegh on Seneca and Tacitus -- Ralegh and Political Prudence -- Ralegh's Legacy -- Chapter 2 Francis Bacon and the Advancement of Constancy -- Bacon and the Crisis in Learning -- Bacon and the Crisis in Humanism -- The Advancement of Learning as Apologia for Tacitism -- Bacon and the Stoics -- Bacon on Fortune, Virtue, and Prudence -- Bacon and the vita contemplativa -- Chapter 3 The Constant Friend: Fulke Greville's Life after Sidney -- Greville and the vita activa -- Right Reason and Grevillean Constancy -- Greville, Knowledge, and Prudence -- Greville, Virtue, and Counsel -- Greville, Authority, and Obedience -- Chapter 4 A Neostoic Scout: Ben Jonson and the Poetics of Constancy -- Life and Circle -- Learning, Humanism, and Religion: Jonson's Road to Constancy -- Politics and the Poetry of Constancy -- Chapter 5 Joseph Hall and 'That Proud Inconstant Lipsius': The English Face of Neostoicism? -- The Making of 'our English Seneca' -- Competing Moral Paradigms: Hall versus Bacon -- Hall and Theophrastus versus Tacitus -- Hall, Obedience, and Authority -- EPILOGUE: CONSTANCY IN THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780802006660
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780802006660
Language:
English
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