Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness: Ethical Inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment - Hardback

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.

• | Author: Brian Michael Norton
• | Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 18, 2012
• | Number of Pages: 168 pages
• | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
• | ISBN-10: 1611484308
• | ISBN-13: 9781611484304