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Index

Abrams, M. H. 148

Adams, Jane 258

Adams, John (1707–40) 107

Addison, Joseph 139–40

Adorno, Theodor 200

Aeschylus 115–16, 195, 203

Akenside, Mark 103–04, 140

Alcott, Louisa May 129–30

Al-Farid, Ibn 243

Al-Ghuzzi, Muhammad 27, 29, 243

Allison, David 210

Altieri, Charles 240, 275

American Beauty ix, 220, 231–36

Anderson, Michael 268

Anger 15, 237

Annas, Julia 241

Appleyard, Bryan 241

Aquinas, St. Thomas 31, 244–45

   analysis of the passions in 13–14, 224–25

   on ethical and divine joys 45–48, 95, 97

   on Galatians 75

Arenas, Reinaldo 274

Ariès, Philip 107

Ariosto, Ludovico 212, 251

Aristotle 125, 126, 221, 262

   ethical joy in 47, 95, 96–97

   happiness in 21

   homonoia in 167

   on tragedy 193–94

Armstrong, Isobel 266

Arnold, Matthew 133, 136

Augustine, St. 31, 33, 92, 93

   on fruor/utor distinction 42–45

   on gaudium/laetitia distinction 6

   on infant depravity 177

Austen, Jane 22

Averill, James 263

Averill, James R., and Thomas A. More 241

Axton, Hoyt 191–92, 227


Bach, Johann Sebastian 38, 251–52

Baker, J. Wayne 251

Barbauld, Anna Letitia 150

Barnes, Elizabeth 237

Barnstone, Willis 262

Barrell, John 133

Barthes, Roland 67, 250

Bataille, George 28

Bate, Jonathan 261

Battestin, Martin 118, 259

Baudrillard, Jean 222

Baumgarten, Alexander 139

Baxter, Richard 78

Beasley-Murray, G. R. 41

Beauties of the English Stage 240–41

Beckett, Samuel 24

Beethoven, Ludwig van 1, 167, 195, 198–201

   and fall of Berlin wall 223

   Fidelio 199–201

   Nietzsche on 207

   Ninth Symphony 198–99, 217–19, 221

Bellamy, Joseph 110

Bentham, Jeremy 22

Bentley, G. E. 178

Berlant, Lauren 237

Bernart de Ventadorn 58–63, 147–48

Bernstein, Leonard 223

Beveridge, William, Bishop of St. Asaph 163

Bevington, David 249

Beyereuther, Erich, and Günter Finkenrath 34

Beyerhaus, Peter 10, 30

Bhagavad-Gita 32

Bible

   1 Corinthians 9

   Exodus 9

   Ezra 36

   Galatians on joy as “fruit of the spirit” x, 73, 75–78

   Genesis 165

   Hebrews 90

   Isaiah 35

   Job 36

   John on “fullness of joy” 18, 30–31, 38–42, 86, 208, 251

   Luke 37–38, 182, 184

   Mark 164, 166, 190

   Matthew 37–38

      Matt. 25:21 (“enter into the joy of your master”) 39, 44, 47, 86, 91, 191

   1 Peter on “unspeakable joy” 18, 40, 89, 91

   Proverbs 9, 94

   Psalms 9, 35–36

   1 Timothy 89

   See also Paul, St.

Blackburn, Simon 261

Blair, Robert 107

Blake, William viii, 1, 5, 162–66, 171–80, 238, 266

   “Chimney Sweeper” 173

   “The Clod and the Pebble” 173–74

   Visions of the Daughters of Albion 174–79

   Yeats on 210, 212, 213, 215

Bloom, Harold 271

Boethius 39, 69, 70–71, 256

Bogan, Louise 150

Bohlmann, Otto 210, 273

Bonca, Teddi 180

Book of Mormon, see Smith, Joseph

Bourke, Vernon J. 246, 252

Bradbury, Thomas 258

Braden, Gordon 249

Brancusi, Constantin 10–12

Brontë, Anne 225, 270

Brontë, Charlotte 270

Brontë, Emily 52

Brown, John (1715–1766) 105–06

Browning, Robert 134, 137

Brownson, Orestes 127

Bruder, Helen 175

Buch, Estaban 170

Bultmann, Rudolf 31–32, 38, 40–41

Bunyan, John 74, 76, 88, 95, 108

Burgess, Anthony 221

Burgh, James 4, 239

Butler, Cuthbert 246

Bynum, Caroline Walker 54, 246

Byron, George Gordon, Lord 156, 212


Camden, Vera 90

Capra, Frank 228–29

Carey, John 85

Carson, Ann 248

Carson, D. A. 38, 39

Cathars 33, 62; See also Gnosticism, Manichaeanism

Chaucer, Geoffrey 147

Chesterton, G. K. 272

Cheyette, Fredric 57, 244

Cicero 25, 243, 250, 256

   on joyful understanding 263

   on the Stoic distinction between gaudium and laetitia 6, 97

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor x, 1–2, 43, 162

   aesthetic joy in 139, 140

   and Wordsworth 131–33, 138

   on “joy” and “the gladness of joy” 6–7, 40

   Troubadour joi in 50, 51–54, 140, 147–48

   Poems:

      Dejection: An Ode 6–7, 148–54, 211

      France: An Ode 143

      “This Lime-Tree Bower my Prison” 145–46

      “The Nightingale” 146–48

Confucius 21, 241

Constant, Benjamin 170

Cooke, Deryck 272

Cooper, John Gilbert 140

Cowper, William 96, 107, 151–52

Crabbe, George 262

Cradock, William 40–41, 256

Craige, John 110

Crane, R. S. 98, 262

Cranmer, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury 85

Creeley, Robert 241

Cudworth, Ralph 269


Damrosch, Leo 269–70

“Daniel K.” (Auschwitz survivor) 217–19

Dante Alighieri 45–46, 64–66

Darwin, Charles 240

Dearborn, T. A. 30

De Bruyn, Frans 257

Defoe, Daniel

   Robinson Crusoe 74, 88–89, 92–94

De La Mare, Walter 226

Delbanco, Andrew 241

Deleuze, Gilles 210, 273

De Man, Paul 185

Descartes, René 239

Diagoras of Rhodes 24–25

Dickens, Charles 129

Dickie, Simon 257

Dickinson, Emily 19–20, 150, 233

Diogenes Laertius 23, 163, 256

Dixon, Thomas 238

Dodson, Joseph 258

Doerksen, Daniel 254

Dollimore, Jonathan 244, 258, 267

Donizetti, Gaetano 17

Donne, John x

   “The Ecstasy” 27

   Elegy 19 5

   Sermons 74, 79, 84–88, 95, 260

Dostoyevsky, Feodor 129, 169

Dowling, W. C. 237, 258

Drayton, Michael 147

Dryden, John 69

Duff, David 180

Dyer, John 261–62


Ecstasy 3, 20, 25–29, 225

Eagleton, Terry 99, 160, 265

Edmundson, Mark 250

Edwards, Jonathan 96, 109–11, 119

Edwards, Thomas R. 173–74

Eliot, George 270

Eliot, T. S. 226

Elizabeth I, Queen of England 70

Ellis, Havelock 209, 274

Ellison, Julie 237

Ellmann, Richard 273, 274

Emerson, Ralph Waldo 28, 233, 240

Emotion, see Passions

Enthusiasm, religious 7, 150, 171

Epicureanism 21, 68, 118; See also Lucretius, pleasure


Fairer, David 269

Feuerbach, Ludwig 186, 193

Fielding, Henry

   Joseph Andrews 108–09, 111–18

   A Journey from this World to the Next 10–12, 17, 29

Fish, Stanley 92, 255

Fisher, Philip 237

Flaubert, Gustave 157, 275

Foster, James 259

Freud, Sigmund 16, 42, 53, 211, 213

Fukuyama, Francis 227


Gantz, Timothy 265

Gardiner, Anne Barbeau 260

Gaull, Marilyn 178

Geertz, Clifford 227

Geist, Sidney 239

Gellius, Aulus 243

Gigante, Denise 265

Gill, Stephen 261, 264

Gilpin, George 261, 264

Gittings, Clare 259

Glossa Ordinaria 251

Gnosticism 33, 61–63, 188; See also Rougemont, Denis de

Godwin, William 118–20, 124, 127, 222

Goldin, Frederick 248

Gottfried von Strassburg 54–55, 61

Grant, John E. 269

Gray, Thomas 2, 116

Grean, Stanley 257

Greene, Donald 256

Greene, Graham 24

Guibbory, Acsah 254

Guillén, Jorge 130

Guittone d’Arezzo 63–64

Gurney, Ivor 225–26


Hadot, Pierre 256

Hall, Edith, and Fiona Macintosh 260

Hamilton, A. C. 253

Happiness 1, 30, 50

   as eudaimonism 3, 21, 99, 161, 219

   as moral deformity 23–24

   distinguished from joy, and from pleasure 2–3, 20–25, 68–71

   in narrative 23

   public happiness 22, 118–20

Hardt, Michael, and Antonio Negri 222

Harrison, Gary 262

Harrison, Susannah 258

Hart, Gail K. 165, 221

Hayward, Thomas 240–41

Heliodoros 111, 243

Hemans, Felicia

   The Beings of the Mind 140–41, 157

   Despondency and Aspiration 153–54

Herbert, George 85

Hill, Aaron 4

Hirsch, E. D. 263

Hobbes, Thomas 8, 10, 100–01, 114

Hogle, Jerrold 185

Holmes, Richard 247

Homer 265

Hooker, Thomas 77–78

Hope 14, 16, 105–06

Hopkins, Jim 246

Horror 17

House of Dolls 220

Hudson, Deal 241

Huizinga, Johan 229–30

Hume, David 21, 98, 108, 144

Hunter, J. Paul 92

Hutcheson, Francis 110, 114, 126


Inchbald, Elizabeth 22

Irwin, Terence 244

Izard, Caroll 130


Jacobus, Mary 263

James, Henry 225

James, Susan 239, 263

James, William 240

Jameson, Fredric 222, 272

Jarrell, Randall 223

Jaucourt, Louis, chevalier de 4

Jaufré Rudel 56–58

Jensen, Frede 57, 64

John, St., of the Cross 39

John, Donald 179

John Paul II, Pope 75

Johnson, Samuel 4, 28, 105, 163, 239

Jouissance 51, 67–68, 113

Joy

   defined vii, 3–7, 10, 30–31

   distinguished from gaieté 4

   distinguished from happiness 2–3, 20–25

   distinguished from pleasure 7, 222, 231–32

   and eschatology 31–38, 60–63, 106–08, 148, 162–63

   and ethics viii–ix, 8–9, 31, 34, 42–47, 158–61

      ethical joy 47, 72, 96–104, 124–30, 228–29

      and theological ethics of forgiveness 163–66

   and grace (gratuitousness) 12, 76–77, 150

   and narrative ix, 3, 10, 13, 89, 210, 230–36

   in aesthetic response, 100, 139–46, 209

   “joy of being” 121–22, 130–37, 210, 226

   paradox of 16, 49, 123, 186, 205, 206

   psychology of 2, 7–8, 210

      in infant development 12–17, 41–42, 121, 154–55, 176–77, 202

   select Indo-European vocabulary for:

      Agalliaō, and other koinē Greek verbs, 37, 244

      Allégresse, allegrezza, alegria 6

      Ananda 32

      Chara 12, 18, 30, 31

      Freude x

      Fröude 54–55

      Gaudium 3, 5–7, 9

         Gaudia, interiora 44

      Gioia x, 63–66

      Gozo 6, 130

      Iubilare 36

      Joi (term of erotic service) x, 3, 50–51, 55–63, 64, 133, 136, 147–48, 228

      Joie x, 3, 4, 5, 50, 256

      Joie de vivre 224, 226

      Laetitia 5–7, 14

      See also Schadenfreude

   tragic joy 194–95, 203–04, 207–08, 209–16, 229

   unspeakable 16–20, 133, 136, 225;

   See also Bible, 1 Peter

Joyce, Simon 267

Joy Division 220

Joylessness (spiritual) 73–74, 78–87, 224, 231

“Joys” (as sexual pleasures) 5

Jupp, W. J. 133, 136


Kames, Henry Home, Lord 239–40

Kant, Immanuel 43, 119, 120, 140, 196–97, 241, 261

Kdf-wagen (Volkswagen) 220

Keach, William 270

Keats, John 28, 56, 69, 123

Keegan, John 217

Kennedy, William J. 253

King, Karen 244

Kivy, Peter 197

Kluge, Friedrich 239

Knoppers, Laura Lunger 254

Kooy, Michael John 153

Kovach, Francis J. 246

Kretzmann, Norman 48

Kristeva, Julia 17, 250

Kruschwitz, Robert 163

Kubrick, Stanley 221

Kundera, Milan 220–21


Lacan, Jacques 55, 57

La Mettrie, Julien Offray de 242

Langford, Paul 269

Lauer, Warner 12

Lazar, Moshe 58, 248

Lears, Jackson 242

Leask, Nigel 270

Lee, M. Owen 272

Lemprière, John 25

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim 164

Lewis, C. S. 50, 185, 250

Lewis, Michael 15, 238, 240

Linche, Richard 249

Locke, John 4, 7, 27

Lockridge, Laurence 121–22

Longinus 56

Love vii–viii, 11, 13, 14, 17, 50

   erotic 56–58, 68–69, 111–15, 198–206, 225

   in theology 39–40, 75

   intellectual 132

Lovejoy, A. O. 271

Lucretius 69, 243

Luther, Martin ix–x, 38, 73, 78, 81, 119, 224

   his Seal 83

   on Galatians 75–76, 90


MacDonald, George 263

Machaty, Gustav 28

MacIntyre, Alasdair 237

Macpherson, James 257

Maier, John R. 82

Makdisi, Saree 172

Mandeville, Bernard 8

Manea, Norman 274

Manichaeanism 33

   Manichean Psalm Book 18

Marcus Aurelius 97

Marcuse, Herbert 122, 228

Markley, Robert 258

Marsden, George M. 260

Marshall, David 237

Marx, Karl 118, 186

McGee, Brian 272

McGinn, Colin 267

McIntosh, Carey 257

McKusick, James 261

McLure, John A. 276

McMahon, Darrin 241

McMurrin, Sterling 271

Mee, Jon 171, 238, 266

Menocal, Maria Rosa 248

Miles, Jack 35

Mill, John Stuart 121, 133, 134–35

Millet, Catherine 28

Millington, Barry 273

Milton, John 37, 101, 147, 148, 258

   and Blake 173, 177–78

   fortunate fall in 187–88

   Il Penseroso 28, 146

   L’Allegro 6

   malicious joy in 9–10

Minta, Stephen 249

Moir, Andrew 109

Moore, C. A. 257

Morillo, John 237, 238

Moskal, Jeanne 176

Muir, John 228

Mullan, John 237

Musa, Mark 66, 249


Nadler, Stephen 258

Negus, Anthony 273

Neuhaus, Richard John, Rev. 224

New, Melvyn 257

Nietzsche, Friedrich viii, 142, 193–96, 206

   eternal recurrence in 210–12, 234

   The Birth of Tragedy 193, 206–16, 219

Norton, Brian Michael 242

Norton, Robert E. 268

Noyes, John Humphrey 178

Nussbaum, Martha 14–15, 237, 239, 240, 241, 273


O’Connor, John J. 79

Olds, Sharon 177

Oliver, P. M. 254

O’Neill, Michael 133

Oppel, Frances Nesbitt 273

Ovid 5, 29, 51, 52, 56, 59, 156, 250, 265


Paley, Morton 269

Paltock, Robert 255

Passions

   and “emotion” 13–14

   cognitive component of 7–8

   passion-terms in twentieth century 224–26

   philosophical psychology of 12–14

   See also joy, anger, love, sympathy, sorrow, hope, horror

Pater, Walter 130, 157

Paul, St. 151, 247;

   See also Bible

Paulson, Ronald 257

Pelikan, Jaroslav 251

Penitential of Finnian 266

Perkins, William 77–78

Perry, Seamus 264

Petrarch 64–65, 66–67, 147, 148

   Anti-Petrarchism 67–68

Pfeffer, Wendy 265

Philo 32

Pinch, Adela 237

Plato 256, 268

Pleasure 7, 50, 223

   in Epicurus 21

   in relation to eudaimonism 68–69

   and moral hedonism 125

   See also Joy, distinguished from pleasure

Plotinus 25, 33

Pocock, J. G. A. viii–ix

Pope, Alexander 21, 140, 238

Potkay, Monica Brzezinski 248, 251

Pound, Ezra 226

Prescott, Anne Lake 253

Price, Richard 119

Priestman, Martin 263

Prins, Yopie 266


Ramazani, R. Jahan 213, 274

Ramsey, Paul 110

Rawls, John 120

Reddy, William vii, 241

Reed, Henry 127

Reed, T. J. 167, 268

Reynolds, Simon 230, 275

Richetti, John 256

Ripa, Cesare 25

Riquelme, John Paul 267

Rivers, Isabel 262

Robert de Boron 75

Robinson, Mary 156–57

Robinson, Paul 272

Rochester, John Wilmot, second earl of 5

Ronsard, Pierre de 67, 113

Rougemont, Denis de 50, 61–63, 204

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 28, 144

Rowe, Nicholas 270

Rumi, Jala al-Din 204, 243

Ryan, Robert 171, 180


Sappho 25–27, 29, 56, 156–57

Schachter, Stanley, and Jerome Singer 5

Schadenfreude 9

Schiller, Friedrich

   and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony 198–99

   on aesthetics 139, 140, 153, 160

   “To Joy” x, 1–2, 162–71

   “Sehnsucht” 270

Schopenhauer, Arthur ix, 155, 196–98, 206–07

Schneewind, Jerome 258

Scodel, Joshua 254

Scott, Mary Jane 263

Scott, Ridley 229

Scott, Thomas (“Dejection”) 148

Scruton, Roger 205

Seneca 6, 97, 243

Shackleton, Robert 242

Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper, third earl of x, 6, 21, 164, 168, 171, 250

   aesthetics in 100, 114, 139, 160

   and ethical joy 72, 95–102, 116, 121, 125–26

   politics 118–19

Shakespeare, William 1, 21, 25, 27

   Romeo and Juliet 67–72, 156–60, 204

Shami, Jeanne 254

Sharpe, Lesley 268

Shaw, George Bernard 1

Shelley, Percy Bysshe 28, 212

   Prometheus Unbound 162–66, 180–86

   “Written on a beautiful day in spring” 180–81

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley 125

Sheriff, John K. 257

Sherwood, Terry G. 253

Shifflett, Andrew 267

Shipps, Jan 271

Sidney, Sir Philip 64, 147

Sill, Geoffrey 93

Singer, Isaac Bashevis 230

Siskin, Clifford 261

Skulsky, Harold 82

Smith, Adam 114, 126, 144

Smith, Charlotte 266

Smith, Joseph (1805–1844, Mormon prophet) 18–19, 162–66, 186–90

Soni, Vivasvan 242

Sorrow 13–14, 132, 137–38, 158

Spence, Sarah 248

Spenser, Edmund x

   Faerie Queene Book 1 74, 79–84, 87

Sperry, Stuart 184

Spinoza, Baruch

   in relation to Shaftesbury 104, 171, 256

   in relation to Wordsworth 131–32, 134, 137, 142

   philosophical psychology in 14, 15, 158

Stapert, Calvin R. 252

Starr, Gabrielle 258

Starr, George A. 92

Staten, Henry 245

Stauffer, Andrew 237

Stauffer, Donald 108

Steele, Anne 258

Stern, Daniel N. 15

Sterne, Laurence 143, 267

Stewart, Susan 266

Stoicism 96, 97–98, 132

   gaudium/laetitia distinction in 5–6, 240

   happiness in 21

   designated “philosophy” 70

   See also Cicero, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca

Stolnitz, Jerome 257

Strauss, Leo 242

Strier, Richard 252, 254

Swaim, Kathleen 255

Swales, Martin, and Timothy McFarland 272

Swedenborg, Emmanuel 171, 271

Swift, Jonathan 24, 119

Symons, Arthur 209

Sympathy 100, 143–46, 237


Tasso, Torquato 242, 248

Taylor, Charles 246

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord 157

Thomas, Edward 227–28

Thompson, T. W. 261

Thomson, James

   The Seasons 102–03, 114–15, 123

Thoreau, Henry David 23, 163, 190–91

Tilden, Jill 66

Tillotson, John, Archbishop of Canterbury 99

Tolstoy, Leo, Count 23, 243

Tompkins, J. M. S. 262

Townsend, Dabney 257, 261

Traherne, Thomas 95–96, 130

Treadwell, James 272

Trevor, Douglas 82–83

Trilling, Lionel 130, 226

Troubadours (twelfth-century) 55–63, 147–48, 151

   and trobairitz 59

   See also Jaufré Rudel, Bernart de Ventadorn


Ulmer, William A. 267

Upanishads ix, 32


Vance, Eugene 248

Vaughan, Henry 85

Virgil 9, 131

Voitle, Robert 98


Wagner, Richard 194–209, 230

   Tristan and Isolde 28, 62, 193, 201–08

Walcott, Derek 22

Walker, Alice 175, 238

Walker, William 264

Wall, John N. 88–89

Walpole, Horace 238, 250

Walzel, Oskar F. 268

Warburton, William 105

Watt, Ian 256

Watts, Isaac 38, 89, 108, 172

Webb, Timothy 272

Weiland, Christoph 168

Wertz, William F. 169–70, 267

Wesley, Charles 38

Wesley, John 255, 259

West, Cornel 222–23

Wheatland, Thomas 259

Wheatley, Kim 270

Whichcote, Benjamin 99

Whipple, Edwin Percy 133, 136

White, Nicholas 242–43

Wierzbicka, Anna vii, 237, 241, 252

Wieseltier, Leon 226

Wieskel, Thomas 261

Wiggins, Peter DeSa 251

Wilde, Oscar

   The Picture of Dorian Gray 2, 141, 158–61

Wilkie, Brian 179

Witherspoon, John 164

Wolfson, Susan 271

Wollheim, Richard 238–39

Wollstonecraft, Mary 22

Wordsworth, William x, 40, 120, 121–38, 141, 151, 162, 181, 226

   “Lines written in early spring” 132–33

   “The Old Cumberland Beggar” 121, 123–29

   “Sonnet on seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams weep” 144

   “Surprised by Joy” 137–38

   “Tintern Abbey” 123, 133–34, 142, 143, 235

Wu, Duncan 262


Yeats, William Butler 193, 194, 196, 209–17

   “A Dialogue of Self and Soul” 211–12

   “The Gyres” 212–14

   “Lapus Lazuli” 214–16

   On the Boiler 215

Young, Edward

   Night Thoughts 95, 96, 106–07, 129, 174, 181, 236


Zagajewski, Adam, see Walcott, Derek

Zink, Michel 56

Zola, Emile 2, 275


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