Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History
A cultural and literary history of the forgotten emotion of cheerfulnessA book for our times. Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History tells a new story about the cultural imagination of the…
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A cultural and literary history of the forgotten emotion of cheerfulnessA book for our times. Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History tells a new story about the cultural imagination of the West. Hampton shows how cheerfulness--a momentary uptick in emotional energy, a temporary lightening of spirit--functions as a theme in the work of major artists from Shakespeare to Louis Armstrong. The book studies both the philosophical construal of cheerfulness--as a theme in Protestant theology, a focus of medical writings, a topic in Enlightenment psychology, and a category of modern aesthetics--as well as its role as a structuring element in stories and poems. Hampton moves lightly across the work of such crucial figures as Montaigne, Hume, Jane Austen, Emerson, Dickens, and Nietzsche, to trace a new history of the emotional life of European and American culture. In
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