British and Romantic Victorian Cultures

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The Pursuit of Happiness

Sponsored by Bard College and Skidmore College
at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
April 24-26, 2009



Happiness our being's end and aim is at bottom, if we will count well, not yet two centuries old in the world. -- Thomas Carlyle.

Following on the 2008 INCS theme, The Emergence of Human Rights, this conference will focus on the pursuit of happiness, that elusive corollary to life and liberty. What form did happiness and the comprehension of happiness take in the nineteenth century?