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
Autor principal: Hampton, Timothy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Zone Books, [2022]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Self (Philosophy) in literature.
Literature, Modern.
Literature and society.
Cheerfulness in literature.
Affect (Psychology) in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature
Litterature et societe.
Moi (Philosophie) dans la litterature.
Gaiete dans la litterature.
Society in literature.
Literature, Modern > History and criticism.
Critiques litteraires.
Literary criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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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