Potkay, Adam

The Story of Joy From the Bible to Late Romanticism - New York Cambridge University 2007 - 304p

includes index and biblioraphy

Introduction: What is joy? 1
1 Religious joy: The ethics of oneness from the Bible to Aquinas 30
2 Erotic Joi: The troubadour tradition 50
3 The Theology of Joy and Joylessness: Luther to Crusoe 73
4 Ethical joy in the age of enlightenment 95
5 The joys of doing and of being: Wordsworth and his Victorian legacy 121

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