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