Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History
- ISBN13:9781942130604
- 出版社:Zone Books
- 作者:Timothy Hampton
- 裝訂:精裝
- 出版日:2022/04/26
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A cultural and literary history of the forgotten emotion of cheerfulness
A book for our times. Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History tells a new story about the cultural imagination of the West. Hampton shows how cheerfulness--a momentary uptick in emotional energy, a temporary lightening of spirit--functions as a theme in the work of major artists from Shakespeare to Louis Armstrong. The book studies both the philosophical construal of cheerfulness--as a theme in Protestant theology, a focus of medical writings, a topic in Enlightenment psychology, and a category of modern aesthetics--as well as its role as a structuring element in stories and poems. Hampton moves lightly across the work of such crucial figures as Montaigne, Hume, Jane Austen, Emerson, Dickens, and Nietzsche, to trace a new history of the emotional life of European and American culture. In a conclusion, on cheerfulness in pandemic days, Hampton stresses the importance of lightness of mind under the pressure of catastrophe. Hampton offers an original argument on a topic never before systematically studied, casting new light on the history of literature, on the intersections of culture and psychology, and on the history of emotions.主題書展
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