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Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness: Ethical Inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment (Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650–1850) by Brian Michael Norton is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness explores the novel’s participation in eighteenth-century “inquiries after happiness,” an ancient ethical project that acquired new urgency with the rise of subjective models of wellbeing in early modern and Enlightenment Europe. Combining archival research on treatises on happiness with illuminating readings of Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, William Godwin and Mary Hays, Brian Michael Norton’s innovative study asks u
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- Author
- Brian Michael Norton
- Publisher
- Bucknell University Press ; Rowman and Littlefield Pub. Group
- Published
- 2012
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781611484311
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Fiction, History, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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