Brian Michael Norton

Gebundenes Buch

Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness

Ethical Inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment

Beschreibung

This book examines the eighteenth-century novel in the context of emerging theories of happiness in early Enlightenment Europe. This important and richly interdisciplinary book offers both a new understanding of the cultural work the eighteenth-century novel performed, as well as an original interpretation of the Enlightenment’s ethical legacy.

Autor

Brian Michael Norton is assistant professor of English and comparative literature at California State University, Fullerton.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9781611484304
• ISBN-10: 1611484308
• Artikelnr.: 35944068