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‘Nothing better than mirth and hilarity’: happiness, unhappiness, jest and sociability in the eighteenth century
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It has been claimed that the eighteenth century invented happiness – or at least, began to entertain the notion that secular happiness could be expected as part of virtuous Christian life. Studies of the notion of happiness in this period have tended to focus on the philosophical dimensions of the concept. This essay offers a different perspective, by considering jest book culture and the idea of mirth through reading. It had long been argued that melancholy could be driven away by sociab...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.14277/2420-823X/El-2-1-15-18p
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- Publisher:
- Edizioni Ca’ Foscari Publisher's website
- Journal:
- English Literature Journal website
- Volume:
- 2
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 123-143
- Publication date:
- 2015-06-30
- Acceptance date:
- 2014-06-06
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2420-823X
- ISSN:
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2385-1635
- Source identifiers:
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647419
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pubs:647419
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uuid:50504088-43ab-4525-bce0-22e7b2088397
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- pubs:647419
- Deposit date:
- 2016-09-30
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- Copyright holder:
- Williams
- Copyright date:
- 2015
- Notes:
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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