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Misanthropy in the Age of Reason : Hating Humanity From Shakespeare to Schiller by Joseph Harris, Joseph Harris is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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Ever since Timon of Athens shunned his fellow-countrymen and went to live out in the wilderness, the misanthrope has proved to be a fascinating but troubling figure for writers and thinkers. This comparative study brings together a range of material from various genres, periods, and countries to explore the developing status of misanthropy in the European literary and intellectual imagination from the late Renaissance to the dawn of Romanticism. During this period, the term 'misanthropy' shifts
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Joseph Harris, Joseph Harris
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780192693280
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25