Suffering and happiness in England, 1550-1850 : narratives and representations : a collection to honour Paul Slack / edited by Michael J. Braddick and Joanna Innes
Published
Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017
The invention of 'happiness' / Phil Withington -- The happiness of suffering: adversity, providence, and agency in early modern England / Alexandra Walsham -- Happiness and the theology of the self in late seventeenth-century England / Craig Muldrew -- Happiness contested: happiness and politics in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries / Joanna Innes -- The sufferings of John Lilburne / Michael J. Braddick -- Writing petitions in early modern England / Faramerz Dabhoiwala -- The body in the workhouse: death, burial, and belonging in early eighteenth-century St Giles in the Fields / Tim Hitchcock -- The 'Highest Roade to Happiness': The 'active philosophy' of James Boevey (1622-1696) / Mark Knights -- 'The Wretch of To-day, may be happy To-morrow': poverty and happiness in England c.1700-1840 / Sarah Lloyd -- Happiness in things? Plebeian experiences of chattel 'property' in the long eighteenth century / Sara Pennell -- The pleasures and pains of breastfeeding in England c.1600-1800 / Alexandra Shepard
Summary
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
