Jonas Ross Kjærgård, PhD, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University and recipient of the EliteResearch travel grant. He acquired his PhD degree at Aarhus University, Denmark, with a dissertation on French Revolutionary rights and literature. He has published articles and book chapters on literature and the French revolution and edited the volume Discursive Framings of Human Rights: Negotiating Agency and Victimhood (with Karen-Margrethe Simonsen), published by Birkbeck Law Press. He has begun a new research project on the literary history of the Haitian revolution.

• Table of ContentsList of FiguresPrefaceIntroductionHappiness and the Politics of WordsThe Political Anthropology of Happiness and RightsLiteratureChapter I: The Unfinished DeclarationDebating the DeclarationNature and SocietyRights and DutiesEnmity and Passive CitizenshipLiteratureChapter II: What Was Literature?The Author-Politician and the Code of HistoryLouis-Sébastien Mercier and the Re-Awakening of Patriotic VirtueChoderlos de Laclos’ Reinterpretation of Dulce et UtileMarie-Joseph Chénier and the Author-LegislatorLiteratureChapter III: Louis-Sébastien Mercier and the Dream of a Happy FutureTemporality in Mercier’s Utopian ThoughtThe Form of Government in L’an 2440Taxation and the Duty of PatriotismLiteratureChapter IV: The Search for Order in Choderlos de Laclos’ Liaisons dangereusesLaclos and the Politics of Social FormsThe Rhythm of Social FormsThe Hierarchies of Social FormsLiteratureChapter V: The Regeneration of the State in Marie-Joseph Chénier’s Fénelon ou les religieuses de Cambrai Convent Life and Paternal InflexibilityThe Problem of HumannessPolitical Agency : From Unhappiness to HappinessThe Tableau Vivant: The Politics of the Happy EndingLiteratureConclusionLiteratureIndex

Jonas Ross Kjærgård, PhD, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University and recipient of the EliteResearch travel grant. He acquired his PhD degree at Aarhus University, Denmark, with a dissertation on French Revolutionary rights and literature. He has published articles and book chapters on literature and the French revolution and edited the volume Discursive Framings of Human Rights: Negotiating Agency and Victimhood (with Karen-Margrethe Simonsen), published by Birkbeck Law Press. He has begun a new research project on the literary history of the Haitian revolution.

• Table of ContentsList of FiguresPrefaceIntroductionHappiness and the Politics of WordsThe Political Anthropology of Happiness and RightsLiteratureChapter I: The Unfinished DeclarationDebating the DeclarationNature and SocietyRights and DutiesEnmity and Passive CitizenshipLiteratureChapter II: What Was Literature?The Author-Politician and the Code of HistoryLouis-Sébastien Mercier and the Re-Awakening of Patriotic VirtueChoderlos de Laclos’ Reinterpretation of Dulce et UtileMarie-Joseph Chénier and the Author-LegislatorLiteratureChapter III: Louis-Sébastien Mercier and the Dream of a Happy FutureTemporality in Mercier’s Utopian ThoughtThe Form of Government in L’an 2440Taxation and the Duty of PatriotismLiteratureChapter IV: The Search for Order in Choderlos de Laclos’ Liaisons dangereusesLaclos and the Politics of Social FormsThe Rhythm of Social FormsThe Hierarchies of Social FormsLiteratureChapter V: The Regeneration of the State in Marie-Joseph Chénier’s Fénelon ou les religieuses de Cambrai Convent Life and Paternal InflexibilityThe Problem of HumannessPolitical Agency : From Unhappiness to HappinessThe Tableau Vivant: The Politics of the Happy EndingLiteratureConclusionLiteratureIndex

Jonas Ross Kjærgård, PhD, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University and recipient of the EliteResearch travel grant. He acquired his PhD degree at Aarhus University, Denmark, with a dissertation on French Revolutionary rights and literature. He has published articles and book chapters on literature and the French revolution and edited the volume Discursive Framings of Human Rights: Negotiating Agency and Victimhood (with Karen-Margrethe Simonsen), published by Birkbeck Law Press. He has begun a new research project on the literary history of the Haitian revolution.

• Table of ContentsList of FiguresPrefaceIntroductionHappiness and the Politics of WordsThe Political Anthropology of Happiness and RightsLiteratureChapter I: The Unfinished DeclarationDebating the DeclarationNature and SocietyRights and DutiesEnmity and Passive CitizenshipLiteratureChapter II: What Was Literature?The Author-Politician and the Code of HistoryLouis-Sébastien Mercier and the Re-Awakening of Patriotic VirtueChoderlos de Laclos’ Reinterpretation of Dulce et UtileMarie-Joseph Chénier and the Author-LegislatorLiteratureChapter III: Louis-Sébastien Mercier and the Dream of a Happy FutureTemporality in Mercier’s Utopian ThoughtThe Form of Government in L’an 2440Taxation and the Duty of PatriotismLiteratureChapter IV: The Search for Order in Choderlos de Laclos’ Liaisons dangereusesLaclos and the Politics of Social FormsThe Rhythm of Social FormsThe Hierarchies of Social FormsLiteratureChapter V: The Regeneration of the State in Marie-Joseph Chénier’s Fénelon ou les religieuses de Cambrai Convent Life and Paternal InflexibilityThe Problem of HumannessPolitical Agency : From Unhappiness to HappinessThe Tableau Vivant: The Politics of the Happy EndingLiteratureConclusionLiteratureIndex