Mourning happiness : narrative and the politics of modernity / Vivasvan Soni.

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--18th century--History and criticism.

Literature.

Enlightenment.

Happiness--Philosophy.

Happiness--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (550 p.)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"A work of rare scope and power that grapples with the big questions: Is happiness the proper end of life, as the Greeks conceived it to be, or is life, as it appears since the early English novel, an endless trial?"-Adam Potkay.

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8014-6026-3

OCLC:

726824323