Fiction Amp the Philosophy of Hapb

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.

List of contents

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

About the author

By Brian Michael Norton

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Michael Norton
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2014
• EAN: 9781611485899
• ISBN: 978-1-61148-589-9
• Series: Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought; Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850; Transits: Literature, Thought
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies