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.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 320/.0942/09032
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- e-uk-en
- ISBN
- 9781442673281 0802006663
- LCCN
- JC145.L8
- LCCN Item number
- M23 1997eb
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- CaOTU
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- 1 electronic text (xxxi, 342 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00600106 (OCoLC)244766511 (CaOOCEL)417740
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Table of Contents
- CONTENTS 8
- LIST OF FIGURES 10
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 12
- A NOTE ON TEXTS, SOURCES, TRANSLATIONS, AND CONVENTIONS 16
- PROLOGUE: RECOVERING THE LIPSIAN PARADIGM 20
- Introduction: Justus Lipsius and the Doctrine of Constancy 36
- Seneca, Tacitus, and the Moral Universe of Neostoicism 38
- The Linguistic Universe of Neostoicism 44
- The Politics of Neostoicism 49
- Doctrine: The Method of Constancy 54
- Neostoicism in France 59
- Lipsius and English Humanism 64
- Chapter 1 The Constant Courtier: Sir Walter Ralegh in Jacobean England 73
- Ralegh and the vita activa 74
- Ralegh on Seneca and Tacitus 81
- Ralegh and Political Prudence 88
- Ralegh's Legacy 98
- Chapter 2 Francis Bacon and the Advancement of Constancy 104
- Bacon and the Crisis in Learning 105
- Bacon and the Crisis in Humanism 108
- The Advancement of Learning as Apologia for Tacitism 112
- Bacon and the Stoics 120
- Bacon on Fortune, Virtue, and Prudence 123
- Bacon and the vita contemplativa 129
- Chapter 3 The Constant Friend: Fulke Greville's Life after Sidney 135
- Greville and the vita activa 139
- Right Reason and Grevillean Constancy 146
- Greville, Knowledge, and Prudence 153
- Greville, Virtue, and Counsel 161
- Greville, Authority, and Obedience 166
- Chapter 4 A Neostoic Scout: Ben Jonson and the Poetics of Constancy 171
- Life and Circle 172
- Learning, Humanism, and Religion: Jonson's Road to Constancy 178
- Politics and the Poetry of Constancy 188
- Chapter 5 Joseph Hall and 'That Proud Inconstant Lipsius': The English Face of Neostoicism? 204
- The Making of 'our English Seneca' 205
- Competing Moral Paradigms: Hall versus Bacon 217
- Hall and Theophrastus versus Tacitus 224
- Hall, Obedience, and Authority 229
- EPILOGUE: CONSTANCY IN THE ENGLISH REVOLUTION 239
- NOTES 246
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 328
- INDEX 364
- A 364
- B 364
- C 365
- D 366
- E 367
- F 367
- G 367
- H 368
- I 369
- J 369
- K 369
- L 370
- M 371
- N 371
- O 371
- P 372
- Q 372
- R 372
- S 373
- T 374
- V 375
- W 375
- Z 375
