Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History Cheerfulness: A Literary and Cultural History, by Timothy Hampton, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2022, 272 pp., $29.00/£22.00 (cloth) [Book Review]

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Today we are bombarded with calls to be happy, optimistic, and the best version of ourselves, whether in popular self-help books or academic studies of human flourishing. One of the threads that co...

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