The Eudaimonic Turn is a collection of critical essays that, taken as a totality, represent a radical shift in focus and orientation. In the challenge to the hermeneutics of suspicion, the adoption of alternative reading strategies, and the complex...
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The Eudaimonic Turn is a collection of critical essays that, taken as a totality, represent a radical shift in focus and orientation. In the challenge to the hermeneutics of suspicion, the adoption of alternative reading strategies, and the complex investigation of well-being as it is configured in various texts, the collection is an analogue of a new discourse that has emerged, one that has immensely enriched literary studies in the last decade
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter One: Pound's Challenge to Rancière's Treatment of the "Aesthetic Regime"; Chapter Two: Thoreau and Health; Chapter Three: Falling from Trees; Chapter Four: Happiness, Catharsis, and the Literary Cure; Chapter Five: Ramblers, Hikers, Vagabonds, and Flâneurs; Chapter Six: Spenser's "vertuous . . . discipline" and Human Flourishing; Chapter Seven: The Choices of Can You Forgive Her?; Chapter Eight: The Crosses We Bear; Chapter Nine: Milton's "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso"; Chapter Ten: On Becoming Neighbor Rosicky
Chapter Eleven: The Career of Joy in the Twentieth CenturyIndex; About the Contributors
