Description: The history of emotions has become a central preoccupation across the humanities and this volume considers the rich possibility of writing a history of happiness in Ireland. Featuring new work from established and emerging scholars, this collection considers how the idea of happiness shaped cultural, literary and individual aspirations across nineteenth-century Ireland.
Brief description: Mary Hatfield is an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow at University College Dublin.
Review Quotes:
'[L]ively and absorbing... this volume is a brave attempt to bring together a variety of perspectives on happiness, and it contains much good and promising research.' Caitriona Clear, Journal of British Studies