‘Nothing better than mirth and hilarity’: happiness, unhappiness, jest and sociability in the eighteenth century
<p>It has been claimed that the eighteenth century invented happiness – or at least, began to entertain the notion that secular happiness could be expected as part of virtuous Christian life. Studies of the notion of happiness in this period have tended to focus on the philosophical dimension...
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Edizioni Ca’ Foscari
2015
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