Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness

Ethical Inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment

Nonfiction, History, Modern, 18th Century, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, European, European General
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Author: Brian Michael Norton ISBN: 9781611484311
Publisher: Bucknell University Press Publication: September 28, 2012
Imprint: Bucknell University Press Language: English
Author: Brian Michael Norton
ISBN: 9781611484311
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Publication: September 28, 2012
Imprint: Bucknell University Press
Language: English

Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness reads the eighteenth-century novel in the context of emerging theories of happiness in early modern and 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.

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Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness reads the eighteenth-century novel in the context of emerging theories of happiness in early modern and 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.

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