SOURCE: “Harpagon: The Paradox of Miserliness,” in Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, Vol. XXII, No. 43, 1995, pp. 555-69.
In the following essay, McCann maintains that the character of Harpagon, of Molière's L'Avare, rises above pure meanness.
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