.... Annas , Julia . The Morality of Happiness . New York: Oxford UP, 1993 . Arendt , Hannah . On Revolution . New York: Viking, 1965 . Ariès , Philippe . Western Attitudes toward Death; From the Middle Ages to the Present . Trans. Patricia M. Ranum Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP...

... realist novel is particularly interesting in this respect, since it took the question of ongoing material survival especially seriously and used endings to mark a shift from narratable, unstable plotted action to stable routines that extend predictably into the future. In these plots of precarity, happy...

... liberal capitalism. This victory is what I am calling history's happy ending, a phrase adapted from Red Plenty . The characters believe that the planned economy, a discredited project into which the novel breathes new life, is the engine capable of producing this historical triumph. Yet in a mini...

..., that process; while a marriage plot, it mourns the sacrifices accompanying such a course rather than reinforcing marriage as a route to liberal notions of civic “happiness.” In addition, by revisiting the Middle Passage, it exposes the liaisons between a particular vision of democracy and the birth of finance...

...Jason Solinger Norton Brian Michael , Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness: Ethical Inquiries in the Age of Enlightenment ( Lanham : Bucknell UP , 2012 ) , pp. 168, cloth , $65.00 . Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 More than half a century after Ian Watt's...

... alternative selves” (3). But while in that book the other through whom identity is generated is usually concrete and specifiable (a pauper, a character, a capitalist), in her new book it is more often an abstraction: the average man, happiness, or the stock market graph as a “representation...

... Copyright © Novel Corp. 2007 2007 Contributors VIVASVAN %>MI is Assistant Professor of English at Northwestern University. He has recently completed a book manuscript titled Mourning Happiness: Narrative and the Politics of Modernity, which uses Greek...

... and Stephen Pinker, may be one term of art for such coziness, but it is no friend to human emotion, let alone the humanities. Then again, cozy relationships, simple happiness, and comfortable feelings more generally provoke Gross, leading him to investigate how “the terms of our comfort take shape polemically...

... of capital and the maximization of happiness. In “Little House, Small Government,” a title whose first term references Laura Ingalls Wilder's eponymous series, Vivian Gornick traces the “ideology that visualize[s] freedom from government as an equivalent of freedom itself” to the triumphalist discourse...

... to the Present . New York : Morrow , 1981 . Gentry Amy . “The Price of a Happy Ending: Affective Pedagogies in Lesbian Pulp Fiction.” Unpublished manuscript , University of Chicago , 2005 . Gorney Jay Kerr Ethel Kerr Walter . “High Brow, Middle Brow, Low Brow.” T-Mss 1994–002...

... awareness of her social condition explains why the happiness she promises, in all its attractive simplic- ity, is irreducibly complex: a promise of inconstant love, reckless generosity, freedom more asserted than real, and pleasure that senses its bad ending from its very beginning. The grisette...

... the consolation of a better future, but also without the sense of irony in which the futility of their efforts might have become apparent. Soon after the publication of Never Let Me Go, Louis Menand summarized the "central premise" of Ishiguro's books as follows: "even when happiness is stand- ing...

... nostalgic for any pre-neoliberalism. It can seem as if the contemporary novel is more like a diagnostic tool than a fount of actionable information or a repository of instructions for conduct. I am not at all sure that our contributors are happy about that job description for the novel, however, and a look...

... more complex than previously thought. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit is commonly read—in modern criticism as well as in contemporary “negative” reviews—as “typical,” as a rehash “of unearned male middle- class angst and, beneath its happy ending, a depressing story of capitulation...

... the better place the deceased now occupy or the importance of cherishing the happy memories they have left behind. Curiously, this resistance to redemptive gestures is entirely at odds not only with how literature is frequently marketed—as any representative sample of back-cover blurbs will attest...

... an explanation for those unsettling "happy endings" that haunt most Victorian novels. Strangely, given how persuasive Lane's thesis is, Victorian novels have beme associ- ated with closure (characterized by those improbable marriages, babies, and fortunes ac- cording to Henry James).Indeed, we tend...

... the villains properly contained (imprisoned in a mental institution, or executed by an agent of a secret Italian society, for example) and "the good people all happy and at peace" (Braddon 3: 10, 447). Just as the novel rewards villainous behavior, so it promotes guilty identification that allows...

... in which she described her warm response to Adam Bede, George Eliot wrote to her publisher, John Blackwood, "Will you tell her that the sort of effect she declares herself to have felt from 'Adam Bede' is just what I desire to produce-gentle thoughts and happy remembrances" (Haight, Selections...

... Richardson's inadequate education and would point to these misattributions as proof of the printer-cum-novelist's igno- rance. However, the fact that Richardson uses Clarissa's postscript to publish his disgust that Tate's happy-ending Lear is acted in preference to the original is an indication...

... to renounce not only “happy endings” and “sympathetic characters” but the satisfying productivity of a clear style in order to break from this ideal. Whatever other power it has, advertising has little capacity for incapacity. The most incisive and devastating critique advanced by The Ambassadors may emerge...