Introduction
1: Misanthropic Origins: Timon of Athens
2: Misanthropy For a Polite Age? Molière's Le Misanthrope
3: Risible Animals: Misanthropic Satire
4: Self-love and Other-hatred (Pascal, Hobbes, Rousseau,
Leopardi)
5: Alceste's Afterlives: Le Misanthrope after Molière
6: Philanthropic Misanthropy
7: Cures, Conversions, and Corrections
8: Malicious Misanthropy
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.
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