Joseph Harris

Gebundenes Buch

Misanthropy in the Age of Reason

Beschreibung

Bringing together a range of material from various genres, periods, and countries, this comparative study explores the developing status of misanthropy in the European literary and intellectual imagination from the late Renaissance to the dawn of Romanticism.

Autor

Joseph Harris studied French and German at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he later wrote his PhD thesis on cross-dressing in seventeenth-century France. After teaching in Cambridge, he started as a lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London, where he has worked ever since. He has written two books and numerous articles on such topics as gender, onstage laughter, dramatic spectatorship, death and violence, and misanthropy, and edited various collective words on religion and seventeenth-century theatre, identification, imagined afterlives, and Racine's tragedy Andromaque. He is co-editor of the journal French Studies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 163mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780192867575
• ISBN-10: 0192867571
• Artikelnr.: 66722089