Brian Michael Norton

Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness

Ethical Inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the eighteenth-century novel in the context of emerging theories of happiness in early Enlightenment Europe. This important and richly interdisciplinary book offers both a new understanding of the cultural work the eighteenth-century novel performed, as well as an original interpretation of the Enlightenment's ethical legacy.

Produktdetails

• Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
• Verlag: Bucknell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9781611485899
• ISBN-10: 1611485894
• Artikelnr.: 40726613

Autorenporträt

Brian Michael Norton is assistant professor of English and comparative literature at California State University, Fullerton.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents Introduction: After the Summum Bonum: Eighteenth-Century Enquiries
after Happiness 1. The Moral in Phutatorius's Breeches: Stoicism,
Subjectivism and the Possibilities of Happiness in Tristram Shandy 2. "Vous
croyez que le même bonheur est fait pour tous": Ethics and Singularity in
Le Neveu de Rameau 3. Tragic Eudaimonism: Social Contradictions and the
Problem of Happiness in Rousseau's Julie 4. The Politics of Happiness:
Caleb Williams, Political Justice and the Nature of Human Goods 5.
Rethinking Autonomy: Emma Courtney, Feminist Ethics and the Question of
Independence Conclusion: The Art of Life in the Age of Enlightenment
Bibliography Index About the Author