Pursuit of Happiness and the American Regime - Political Theory in Literature

Informationen zum Autor By Elizabeth Amato Klappentext This book explores happiness research and liberal theory. It treats four American novelists as political thinkers through close textual analysis of their novels. This book concludes that friendship is the real basis of happiness and that it is an alternative to the individualistic pursuit of happiness. Zusammenfassung This book explores happiness research and liberal theory. It treats four American novelists as political thinkers through close textual analysis of their novels. This book concludes that friendship is the real basis of happiness and that it is an alternative to the individualistic pursuit of happiness. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: Understanding the Pursuit of HappinessChapter 2: Tom Wolfe's Status Hungry AmericaChapter 3: Walker Percy's SearchChapter 4: Edith Wharton's Case for Happiness and SocietyChapter 5: Hawthorne's Hope for Friendship and HappinessChapter 6: Sharing the Pursuit of Happiness

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Amato
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781498554190
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5419-0
• No. of pages: 198
• Series: Politics, Literature, & Film; Politics, Literature, & Film
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Politics & government, Political science & theory, Literature: history & criticism, Politics and government, Political science and theory, Literature: history and criticism