Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: The Symbolic Economy of Postwar American Happiness 1
5. 1 The Art, Sociology, and Library Politics of Happiness in Early Philip Roth 30
6. 2 Gwendolyn Brooks and the Welfare State 56
7. 3 Queer Consumerism, Straight Happiness: Patricia Highsmith’s “Right Economy” 100
8. 4 Countries of Health 123
9. 5 Writing Mute Liberalism: Peter Taylor, the South, and Journeyman Happiness 179
10. Coda: The Politics of Contemporary Happiness 221
11. Notes 231
12. Index 271