This book introduces the reader to the ways in which happiness has
been explored in philosophy and literature for thousands of years,
in order to understand the newest theoretical approaches to
happiness. Jeffrey R. Di Leo draws on its long and rich history as
a window into our present obsession with happiness. Each of the
four chapters of this book provides a substantially different
literary-theoretical account of how and why literature matters with
respect to considerations of happiness. From the neoliberal
happiness industry and the psychoanalytic rejection of happiness to
aesthetic hedonism and revolutionary happiness, literature viewed
from the perspective of happiness becomes a story about what is and
is not the goal of life. The multidisciplinary approach of this
book will appeal to a variety of readers from literary studies,
critical theory, philosophy and psychology and anyone with an
interest in happiness and theories of emotion.
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