Cheerfulness : a literary and cultural history /
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 tragedi...
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New York :
Zone Books,
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Table of Contents:
- 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.