The pursuit of happiness and the American regime political theory in literature
This book explores happiness research and liberal theory. It treats four American novelists as political thinkers through close textual analysis of their novels. This book concludes that friendship is the real basis of happiness and that it is an alternative to the individualistic pursuit of happine...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham
Lexington Books,
[2018]
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| Series: | Politics, literature, and film
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| Online Access: | EBSCOhost Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
Table of Contents:
- Understanding the American pursuit of happiness
- Tom Wolfe's status hungry America
- Walker Percy's search
- Edith Wharton's case for happiness and society
- Hawthorne's hope for friendship and happiness
- Sharing the pursuit of happiness.