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05938aam a2200541 i 4500 001 96DB4A649A4F11EE9D2109AF26ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20231214010155 008 210506t20222022nyu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021007241 020 $a 1942130600 020 $a 9781942130604 035 $a (OCoLC)1262798944 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCO $d OCL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN56.C46 $b H36 2022 082 00 $a 809/.93353 $2 23/eng/20210930 100 1 $a Hampton, Timothy, $e author. 245 10 $a Cheerfulness : $b a literary and cultural history / $c Timothy Hampton. 264 1 $a New York : $b Zone Books, $c 2022. 300 $a 267 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: A contagion, a power -- Early modern cheerfulness. Body, heaven, home : cheerful places -- Among the cheerful : the emotional life of charity -- Medicine, manners, and reading for the kidneys -- Shakespeare, or the politics of cheer -- Montaigne, or the cheerful self -- Cheerful economies and bourgeois culture. Social virtue, enlightenment emotion : Hume and Smith -- Jane Austen, or cheer in time -- Cheerful ambition in the age of capital : Dickens to Alger -- Gay song and natural cheer : Milton, Wordsworth -- Modern cheerfulness. The gay scientists : philosophy and poetry -- It is amazing! Self-help and self-marketing -- "Take it, Satch!" : cheer in dark times -- Conclusion: Cheer in pandemic days. 520 $a "This book offers the first study of a form of emotion that has inflected both the social life and the literary history of the European/American cultural tradition since the Renaissance. It explores the changing fortunes and shapes of cheerfulness and gaiety in cultural texts ranging from the tragedies of Shakespeare to the music of Louis Armstrong. It recasts our understanding of the relationship between poetry and the emotions, and models a new approach to writing about feeling. Recent years have seen a growing bookshelf of studies in the history of emotion and in what is now called "affect theory." Most of this work deals in either heavy-handed generalizations (the Renaissance as "the age of melancholy") or jargon-filled attempts to grasp the emotional life of our miserable present (books on ugliness, melancholy, cruelty, etc.). Cheerfulness presents a scholarly challenge. It is a modest emotional force, yet, as Emerson says, also a "power." It predates our current misery, emerging as a topic of reflection at the time of the Renaissance, in debates over Biblical interpretation. And it is a central feature of both the emotional life of the West and the artistic legacy of poetry since the end of the Middle Ages. Yet what is cheerfulness? Philologically, it is related to a Middle French word meaning "face;" and in part the history of cheerfulness is the history of a certain understanding of the face. Yet cheerfulness escapes most of the categories that have been invented to discuss emotion. It does not fit into the classical canon of the "passions," even though it is often mentioned in pre-modern medical writing. It emerges and circulates, not within the individual, but between subjects, in the social presentation of the self and in the interplay of groups. Hume calls it a "contagion." It is generally understood to be ephemeral, only visible when in use, difficult to describe abstractly. It touches on the domain of the "affects": yet Spinoza, the great theorist of affect, sets it apart from other phenomena in his discussions of the self. Most important, it is a force that one can control. You cannot "make yourself" melancholy or happy; but you can "make yourself" cheerful. This means that cheer is a force that migrates through the individual subject, shaping her, influencing the quality of the environs, yet somehow also under individual control. It can become a "technique" of selfhood, a force that can be deployed and, as I put it, "used"-by philosophies, discourses, poetic projects. Through a series of 12 interlocking chapters, the book tracks the shifting ways in which major writers and thinkers understand and "use" the idea of cheerfulness in their descriptions of subjectivity, community, and emotion. The discussion ranges from canonical works of literature and philosophy (by Shakespeare, Milton, Montaigne, Dickens, Hume, Austen, Nietzsche) to writing by doctors, theologians, economists, and popular psychologists, from Julian of Norwich to Norman Vincent Peale"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Cheerfulness in literature. 650 0 $a Literature, Modern $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Affect (Psychology) in literature. 650 0 $a Self (Philosophy) in literature. 650 0 $a Literature and society. 650 0 $a Society in literature. 650 6 $a GaieteÌ dans la litteÌrature. 650 6 $a Moi (Philosophie) dans la litteÌrature. 650 6 $a LitteÌrature et socieÌteÌ. 650 7 $a Society in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01896128 650 7 $a Affect (Psychology) in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01902304 650 7 $a Cheerfulness in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00852721 650 7 $a Literature and society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000096 650 7 $a Literature, Modern. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000172 650 7 $a Self (Philosophy) in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01111456 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01986215 655 7 $a Literary criticism. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Critiques litteÌraires. $2 rvmgf 776 08 $i Online version: $a Hampton, Timothy. $t Cheerfulness $d New York : Zone Books, 2022 $z 9781942130628 $w (DLC) 2021007242 941 $a 1 952 $l PQAX094 $d 20231214043343.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=96DB4A649A4F11EE9D2109AF26ECA4DB 994 $a Z0 $b IOWInitiate Another SILO Locator Search