Mourning Happiness: Narrative and the Politics of Modernity
- ISBN-10
- 0801448174
- ISBN-13
- 9780801448171
- Category
- Enlightenment
- Pages
- 560
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Author
- Vivasvan Soni
Description
A work of rare scope and power that grapples with the big questions: Is happiness the proper end of life, as the Greeks conceived it to be, or is life, as it appears since the early English novel, an endless trial?--Adam Potkay
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