Suffering and Happiness in England 1550-1850: Narratives and Representations
A collection to honour Paul Slack
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 10 August 2017
- ISBN 9780198748267
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages274 pages
- Size 236x169x23 mm
- Weight 542 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 16 black and white figures/illustrations 0
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Short description:
These essays honour leading historian of early modern England, Paul Slack, by engaging with his work on social policy and the history of political economy. They explore how languages of happiness and suffering developed, and how historians might explore the public employment and subjective experiences of happiness and suffering in this period.
MoreLong description:
Suffering and Happiness in England 1550-1850 pays tribute to one of the leading historians working on early modern England, Paul Slack, and his work as a historian, and enters into discussion with the rapidly growing body of work on the 'history of emotions'. The themes of suffering and happiness run through Paul Slack's publications; the first being more prominent in his early work on plague and poverty, the second in his more recent work on conceptual frameworks for social thought and action. Though he has not himself engaged directly with the history of emotions, assembling essays on these themes provides an opportunity to do that. The chapters explore in turn shifting discourses of happiness and suffering over time; the deployment of these discourses for particular purposes at specific moments; and their relationship to subjective experience. In their introduction, the editors note the very diverse approaches that can be taken to the topic; they suggest that it is best treated not as a discrete field of enquiry but as terrain in which many paths may fruitfully cross. The history of emotions has much to offer as a site of encounter between historians with diverse knowledge, interests, and skills.
The volume is marked by a consideration of the lives of 'ordinary' people and particularly the poor, providing a novel and useful contribution to a set of emotions often located as the domain of art and philosophy... The essays are richly researched, offering novel insights and rewarding reading.
Table of Contents:
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
PART I: GRAND NARRATIVES
The Invention of 'Happiness'
The Happiness of Suffering: Adversity, Providence and Agency in Early-Modern England
Happiness and the Theology of the Self in Late Seventeenth-Century England
Happiness Contested: Happiness and Politics in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth centuries
PART II: MOBILISING SUFFERING AND HAPPINESS
The Sufferings of John Lilburne
Writing Petitions in Early Modern England
The Body in the Workhouse: Death, Burial and Belonging in Early Eighteenth-Century St Giles in the Fields
PART III: EXPERIENCING SUFFERING AND HAPPINESS
The 'Highest Roade to Happiness': the 'Active Philosophy' of James Boevey (1622-1696)
The Wretch of Today, may be happy Tomorrow: Poverty and Happiness in England c. 1700-1840
Happiness in Things? Plebeian Experiences of Chattel 'Property' in the Long Eighteenth Century
The Pleasures and Pains of Breast-Feeding in England, c.1600-c.1800
PAUL SLACK: A BIBLIOGRAPHY
