Adam Potkay, Potkay

The Story of Joy

From the Bible to Late Romanticism

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Produktbeschreibung

A highly original and hugely enjoyable literary and cultural history of joy from ancient times to the present.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780521178419
• ISBN-10: 052117841X
• Artikelnr.: 32467370

Autorenporträt

Adam Potkay is Professor of English at the College of William and Mary, Virginia.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: what is a joy?
1. Religious joy: the ethics of oneness from the Bible to Aquinas
2. Erotic joy: the Troubadour tradition
3. The theology of joy and joylessness: Luther to Crusoe
4. Ethical joy in the Age of Enlightenment
5. The joys of doing and of being: Wordsworth and his Victorian legacy
6. Joy and aesthetics: Coleridge to Wilde
7. Post-Christian prophesies of forgiveness and exaltation
8. Tragic joy and the spirit of music: Wagner, Nietzsche, Yeats
Conclusion: the career of joy in the twentieth century
Bibliography
Index.