The happiness of the British working class /

For working-class life writers in nineteenth century Britain, happiness was a multifaceted emotion: a concept that could describe experiences of hedonic pleasure, foster and deepen social relationships, drive individuals to self-improvement and lead them to look back over their lives and evaluate wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bronstein, Jamie L., 1968- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2023].
Subjects:	English literature > 19th century > History and criticism. Working class authors > Great Britain > History > 19th century. Happiness in literature. Working class in literature. Autobiography.

Table of Contents:

Interrogating autobiographies
The simple pleasures of childhood
Work and flow
Life is with people
The natural world
Self-cultivation
The way of duty
Absent happiness
Sadness, fear, anger
The past and the present converse.