Timothy Hampton

Mar 22, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Timothy Hampton |Princeton Press |Lee Trepanier

Today we are bombarded with calls to be happy, optimistic, and the best version of ourselves, whether in popular self-help books or academic studies of human flourishing. One of the threads that connects these works together is the theme of cheerfulness, the state of being noticeably happy and optimistic. But what is cheerfulness and where does it come from? Timothy Hampton, the Aldo Scagione and Marie M.

Dec 4, 2023 | insidehighered.com | Timothy Hampton

When I was in my first semester of study for the Ph.D., I met a famous professor. I was at Princeton University, the only working-class, public university–educated student in my program in comparative literature. I had slipped in through a side door, after some time at the University of Toronto, where I worked on an M.A. until my mentors left for greener pastures and suggested I leave as well.

May 25, 2023 | flipboard.com | Timothy Hampton

1 day agoNot ready to say goodbye to the Roys' world of corporate greed, family infighting, and dynastic wealth? Then keep the boom times rolling with this juicy collection of books. In its four seasons on air, Succession has cemented its place as one of the TV greats. The HBO series, which follows aging …

May 25, 2023 | aeon.co | Timothy Hampton

‘Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?’ The opening line of William Shakespeare’s most famous sonnet might lead you to think that you’re being prepared for a weather report. But that is only part of what awaits you. Shakespeare’s sonnet – like all sonnets – is a mechanism, a kind of a machine. Its parts work both together and against each other so as to exercise the mind of the reader. When you work with it, as you enter its world, you get the literary equivalent of a workout at the gym.