The Eudaimonic Turn: Well-Being in Literary Studies

by James O. Pawelski (Editor), D. J. Moores (Editor)

Overview

This bookis a collection of critical essays that examine a radical shift in focus and orientation. In the challenge to the hermeneutics of suspicion, the adoption of alternative reading strategies, and the investigation of well-being, this collection is an analogue of a new discourse that has immensely enriched literary studies in the last decade.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611477351
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	06/10/2014
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

James O. Pawelski is director of Education and Senior Scholar in the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania, where he serves as the founding director of the Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) program.

D.J. Moores is assistant professor of English at Kean University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Foreword: Adam Potkay

Introduction Part 1: James Pawelski—What Is the Eudaimonic Turn?

Introduction Part 2: D. J. Moores—The Eudaimonic Turn in Literary Studies

1. Charles Altieri—Pound’s Challenge to Ranciere’s Treatment of the “Aesthetic Regime”:

Why Nietzsche is Necessary for a Positive Account of Modernism in the
Arts

1. James Engell—Thoreau and Health: Physician, Naturalist, Metaphysician

1. Erin Lafford and Emma Mason—Falling from Trees: Arborescent Prosody in John Clare’s

Tree Elegies

1. John Channing Briggs—Happiness, Catharsis, and the Literary Cure

1. Michael West—Ramblers, Hikers, Vagabonds, and Flâneurs: America’s Peripatetic

Romantics and the Rituals of Healthy Walking

1. Paola Baseotto—Spenser’s “virtuous. .. discipline” and Human Flourishing

1. Amanpal Garcha—The Choices of Can You Forgive Her?:Literary Realism, Freedom, and

Contentment

1. David Bordelon—The Crosses We Bear: Religion, Readers, and Woman’s Intellect in

Augusta Jane Evans’ St. Elmo

1. Daniel O’Day— Milton’s “L’Allegro”and“Il Penseroso”:Prophetic Joy Anticipated

1. Christine E. Kephart— On Becoming Neighbor Rosicky: Willa Cather, William James and

the Constructs of Well-Being

1. Adam Potkay—The Career of Joy in the Twentieth Century

Editorial Reviews

The Eudaimonic Turn represents nothing less than a stunning interdisciplinary achievement. The editors were well partnered... Together, their work demonstrates enormous self-awareness and intellectual humility by simultaneously developing an important new idea in the specifi c discipline of literary studies (an important contribution in its own right) while contextualising it in a much bigger global change process which has never before been so compellingly articulated. Indeed, the legacy of this work is likely to be of historic proportions.... Ultimately, The Eudaimonic Turn: Well-Being in Literary Studies is destined to be a foundational text, first for its contribution to literary studies, but even more so for recognising and articulating the contours of a broader civilisation wide development.

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