The story of joy: from the Bible to late Romanticism

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History of Emotions Research Philosophy and Historical Thought Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art

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Preface Introduction: what is a joy? 1. Religious joy: the ethics of oneness from the Bible to Aquinas 2. Erotic joy: the Troubadour tradition 3. The theology of joy and joylessness: Luther to Crusoe 4. Ethical joy in the Age of Enlightenment 5. The joys of doing and of being: Wordsworth and his Victorian legacy 6. Joy and aesthetics: Coleridge to Wilde 7. Post-Christian prophesies of forgiveness and exaltation 8. Tragic joy and the spirit of music: Wagner, Nietzsche, Yeats Conclusion: the career of joy in the twentieth century Bibliography Index.

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