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

by Brian Michael Norton (Author)

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 Biography

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