TY  - GEN
T1  - Fiction and the philosophy of happiness : ethical inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment
A1  - Norton, Brian Michael, 1971-
LA  - English
PP  - Lewisburg, PA
PB  - Bucknell University Press ;
YR  - 2012
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1082691801
AB  - "Explores the novel's participation in eighteenth-century 'inquiries after happiness, ' an ancient ethical project that acquired new urgency with the rise of subjective models of well-being in early modern and Enlightenment Europe. Combining archival research on treatises on happiness with illuminating readings of Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, William Godwin and Mary Hays, Brian Michael Norton's innovative study asks us to see the novel itself as a key instrument of Enlightenment ethics. His central argument is that the novel form provided a uniquely valuable tool for thinking about the nature and challenges of modern happiness: whereas treatises sought to theorize the conditions that made happiness possible in general, eighteenth-century fiction excelled at interrogating the problem on the level of the particular, in the details of a single individual's psychology and unique circumstances."--Publisher description.
OP  - 159
CN  - PN3495 .N67 2012
SN  - 9781611484304
SN  - 1611484308
SN  - 1611484316
SN  - 9781611484311
KW  - Andrae, A.
KW  - Fiction : 18th century : History and criticism.
KW  - Happiness in literature.
KW  - Enlightenment : Europe.
KW  - Roman : 18e siècle : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Bonheur dans la littérature.
KW  - Siècle des Lumières : Europe.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Literary.
KW  - Enlightenment
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Happiness in literature
KW  - Europe
KW  - Aufklärung
KW  - Englisch
KW  - Französisch
KW  - Glück : Motiv
KW  - 1700-1799
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -