DOI: 10.1093/9780191996580.003.0007 ISSN:

Afterword

Kirsty Martin
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Abstract

This brief afterword draws together the argument of the book with a reading of Ali Smith’s Gliff (2024) and comments on her use of art objects in her writing. It uses her treatment of the Creswell Horsehead as an image for what might be important and inevitable about wanting to write happiness. I then reflect on my own position in relation to happiness: how happiness might relate to close reading and to scholarship, and how my own shifting degree of happiness might have mattered in writing the book. I conclude with thinking about the magnetism and temptations of happiness as a topic.

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