Cheerfulness

Cheerfulness
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 141
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ISBN-10 : 9781942130628
ISBN-13 : 1942130627
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Book Synopsis Cheerfulness by : Timothy Hampton

Download or read book Cheerfulness written by Timothy Hampton and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-24 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely story of a forgotten emotion Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History tells a new story about the cultural imagination of the West wherein cheerfulness — a momentary uptick in emotional energy, a temporary lightening of spirit — functions as a crucial theme in literary, philosophical, and artistic creations from early modern to contemporary times. In dazzling interpretations of Shakespeare and Montaigne, Hume, Austen and Emerson, Dickens, Nietzsche, and Louis Armstrong, Hampton explores the philosophical construal of cheerfulness — as a theme in Protestant theology, a focus of medical writing, a topic in Enlightenment psychology, and a category of modern aesthetics. In a conclusion on cheerfulness in pandemic days, Hampton stresses the importance of lightness of mind under the pressure of catastrophe. A history of the emotional life of European and American cultures, a breathtaking exploration of the intersections of culture, literature, and psychology, Cheerfulness challenges the dominant narrative of Western aesthetics as a story of melancholy, mourning, tragedy, and trauma. Hampton captures the many appearances of this fleeting and powerfully transformative emotion whose historical and literary trajectory has never before been systematically traced.


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Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.