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Fiction and the philosophy of happiness : ethical inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment /
"Explores the novel's participation in eighteenth-century 'inquiries after happiness, ' an ancient ethical project that acquired new urgency with the rise of subjective models of well-being in early modern and Enlightenment Europe. Combining archival research on treatises on happ...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Lewisburg, PA] :
Bucknell University Press ;
[2012]
Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield Pub. Group, [2012] |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Explores the novel's participation in eighteenth-century 'inquiries after happiness, ' an ancient ethical project that acquired new urgency with the rise of subjective models of well-being in early modern and Enlightenment Europe. Combining archival research on treatises on happiness with illuminating readings of Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, William Godwin and Mary Hays, Brian Michael Norton's innovative study asks us to see the novel itself as a key instrument of Enlightenment ethics. His central argument is that the novel form provided a uniquely valuable tool for thinking about the nature and challenges of modern happiness: whereas treatises sought to theorize the conditions that made happiness possible in general, eighteenth-century fiction excelled at interrogating the problem on the level of the particular, in the details of a single individual's psychology and unique circumstances."--Publisher description. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 159 pages |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781611484304 1611484308 |