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Literary Studies and Human Flourishing (Paperback)
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Literary Studies and Human Flourishing (Paperback)
Series: The Humanities and Human Flourishing
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The Humanities and Human Flourishing series publishes edited
volumes that explore the role of human flourishing in the central
disciplines of the humanities, and whether and how the humanities
can increase human happiness. The contributors to this volume of
essays investigate the question: what do literary scholars
contribute to social scientific research on human happiness and
flourishing? Of all humanities disciplines, none is more resistant
to the program of positive psychology or the prevailing discourse
of human flourishing than literary studies. The approach taken in
this volume of essays is neither to gloss over that antagonism nor
to launch a series of blasts against positive psychology and the
happiness industry. Rather, the contributors reflect on how their
literary research-work to which they are personally committed-might
become part of an interdisciplinary conversation about human
flourishing. The contributors' areas of research are wide ranging,
covering literary aesthetics, book history, digital humanities, and
reader reception, as well as the important "inter-disciplines" of
gender and sexuality studies, disability studies, and black
studies-fields in which issues of stigma and exclusion are
paramount, and which have critiqued the discourse of human
flourishing for its failure to grapple with structural inequality
and human difference. Literary scholars are drawn more readily to
the problematic than to the decidable, but by dwelling on the
trouble spots in a field of inquiry still largely confined to the
sciences, Literary Studies and Human Flourishing provides the
groundwork for new and more productive forms of interdisciplinary
collaboration and exchange.
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