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Norton, Brian Michael.

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The art of life: Ethics, happiness and the philosophical novel in eighteenth-century Britain and France.

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	The art of life: Ethics, happiness and the philosophical novel in eighteenth-century Britain and France./
作者:	Norton, Brian Michael.
面頁冊數:	221 p.
附註:	Adviser: Daniel Javitch.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-09A.
標題:	Literature, Comparative. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3234169
ISBN:	9780542877896

The art of life: Ethics, happiness and the philosophical novel in eighteenth-century Britain and France.
Norton, Brian Michael.

The art of life: Ethics, happiness and the philosophical novel in eighteenth-century Britain and France. - 221 p.

Adviser: Daniel Javitch.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--New York University, 2006.

Early modern and Enlightenment critiques of the summum bonum brought new emphasis to the subjective dimensions of happiness, raising a number of concerns, conceptual and moral, about the potential forms the good life might take. This dissertation views the emerging novel and the highly popular treatise on happiness as two exemplary, and contrasting, eighteenth-century responses to this problem. It demonstrates that treatises were committed to regulating or containing happiness, above all, by specifying its conditions of possibility: whatever happiness may be in a particular instance, there was almost universal agreement that there could be no happiness without virtue. The novel provided a very different means of exploring these matters. Reading fiction by Johnson, Sterne, Diderot, Rousseau and Godwin, this dissertation argues that the novel form offered an unprecedented means of interrogating the problem on the level of the particular, in the details of a single individual's psychology and unique circumstances. Although philosophical novelists were motivated by the same moral anxieties that preoccupied treatise writers, their investigations were decidedly more open-ended, searching and provisional, revealing happiness to be at once more elusive and in some ways even more valuable than treatises would allow.

ISBN: 9780542877896Subjects--Topical Terms:

530051
Literature, Comparative.

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