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Mourning happiness : narrative and the politics of modernity / Vivasvan Soni.
LIBRA BJ1481 .S657 2010
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Soni, Vivasvan, 1968-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Happiness--Philosophy--History--18th century.
- Happiness.
- Happiness in literature--History and criticism.
- Happiness in literature.
- Literature, Modern--18th century--History and criticism.
- Literature, Modern.
- Enlightenment.
- Happiness--Philosophy.
- Happiness--Political aspects.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 536 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801448171
- 0801448174
- OCLC:
- 617604046
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