| FB-52306-06 | Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Adam Stanley Potkay | The Story of Joy: The Literary and Intellectual History of an Emotion | 7/1/2006 - 6/30/2007 | $40,000.00 | Adam | Stanley | Potkay | | | | College of William and Mary | Williamsburg | VA | 23186-0002 | USA | 2005 | British Literature | Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Research Programs | 40000 | 0 | 40000 | 0 |
"The Story of Joy" will provide a literary and intellectual history of "joy" in the Western tradition, with particular emphasis on the early modern period and the "long eighteenth-century"(1660-1832). I contend that the Protestant Reformation ushered in an unprecedented concern with joy as a "fruit of the Spirit"(Galatians 5:22)and that the trajectory from Reformation to literary Romanticism may be understood as the ongoing dialectic between religious and naturalistic discourses of joy. |