-
Always to Be Blest
- The Eighteenth Century
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 54, Number 3, Fall 2013
- pp. 427-432
- 10.1353/ecy.2013.0029
- Review
- Additional Information
- Purchase/rental options available:
A review of Vivasvan Soni’s Mourning Happiness: Narrative and the Politics of Modernity (Cornell University Press, 2010), a study of happiness as a narrative form, as it appeared in classical antiquity and disappeared from eighteenth-century European discourses, including novels, moral philosophy, and political rhetoric.