Timothy Hampton

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Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural HistoryHardcover, 24 May 2022

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Print Length
272 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Zone Books
Date Published
24 May 2022
ISBN-10
1942130600
ISBN-13
9781942130604

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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.

Product Details

Author:
Timothy Hampton
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
24 May 2022
Dimensions:
23.01 x 15.01 x 2.59 cm
ISBN-10:
1942130600
ISBN-13:
9781942130604
Language:
English
Location:
Brooklyn
Pages:
272
Publisher:
Weight:
521.63 gm

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