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Tragic Revolutionary Comic Figures: On Joseph Harris’s “Misanthropy in the Age of Reason”
Ian Ellison reviews Joseph Harris’s “Misanthropy in the Age of Reason: Hating Humanity from Shakespeare to Schiller.”...
Ian Ellison is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Kent and the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt. He was short-listed for the 2023 Peirene Stevns Translation Prize and his book Late Europeans and Melancholy Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium (2022) is out now.