Mourning happiness : narrative and the politics of modernity /

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For many eighteenth-century thinkers, happiness was a revolutionary idea filled with the promise of the Enlightenment. Vivasvan Soni argues, however, that the period fails to establish the importance of happiness as a guiding idea for human practice, generating our modern sentimental idea of happine...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Soni, Vivasvan, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010.
Temas:
1700 - 1799
Happiness > Philosophy > History > 18th century.
Happiness in literature > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 18th century > History and criticism.
Enlightenment.
Happiness > Philosophy.
Happiness > Political aspects.
Bonheur > Philosophie > Histoire > 18e siècle.
Bonheur dans la littérature > Histoire et critique.
Littérature > 18e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Siècle des Lumières.
Bonheur > Philosophie.
Bonheur > Aspect politique.
Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
Enlightenment
Happiness in literature
Happiness > Philosophy
Literature, Modern
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Solon's cryptic injunction : "Call no man happy until dead"
  • A mourning happiness : the Athenian funeral oration
  • Difficult happiness : the case of tragedy
  • Aristotle's hermeneutic of happiness : the first forgetting
  • The trial narrative in Richardson's Pamela : suspending the hermeneutic of happiness
  • Effects of the trial narrative on the concept of happiness
  • Marriage plot
  • The tragedies of sentimentalism
  • Kantian ethics and the discourses of modernity
  • Happiness in revolution : erasing the political concept of happiness.

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