Introduction: A contagion, a power
Early modern cheerfulness. Body, heaven, home : cheerful places
Among the cheerful : the emotional life of charity
Medicine, manners, and reading for the kidneys
Shakespeare, or the politics of cheer
Montaigne, or the cheerful self
Cheerful economies and bourgeois culture. Social virtue, enlightenment emotion : Hume and Smith
Jane Austen, or cheer in time
Cheerful ambition in the age of capital : Dickens to Alger
Gay song and natural cheer : Milton, Wordsworth
Modern cheerfulness. The gay scientists : philosophy and poetry
It is amazing! Self-help and self-marketing
"Take it, Satch!" : cheer in dark times
Conclusion: Cheer in pandemic days.
