Cheerfulness : a literary and cultural history /

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"This book offers the first study of a form of emotion that has inflected both the social life and the literary history of the European/American cultural tradition since the Renaissance. It explores the changing fortunes and shapes of cheerfulness and gaiety in cultural texts ranging from the t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hampton, Timothy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Zone Books, [2022]
Temas:
Cheerfulness in literature.
Literature, Modern > History and criticism.
Affect (Psychology) in literature.
Self (Philosophy) in literature.
Literature and society.
Society in literature.
Gaieté dans la littérature.
Moi (Philosophie) dans la littérature.
Littérature et société.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature
Literature, Modern.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: A contagion, a power
  • Early modern cheerfulness. Body, heaven, home : cheerful places
  • Among the cheerful : the emotional life of charity
  • Medicine, manners, and reading for the kidneys
  • Shakespeare, or the politics of cheer
  • Montaigne, or the cheerful self
  • Cheerful economies and bourgeois culture. Social virtue, enlightenment emotion : Hume and Smith
  • Jane Austen, or cheer in time
  • Cheerful ambition in the age of capital : Dickens to Alger
  • Gay song and natural cheer : Milton, Wordsworth
  • Modern cheerfulness. The gay scientists : philosophy and poetry
  • It is amazing! Self-help and self-marketing
  • "Take it, Satch!" : cheer in dark times
  • Conclusion: Cheer in pandemic days.

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