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Colin Burrow: Character Types, 19 February 2026
The Character Sketch as Philosophy: Manners, Mores, Types
by Katie Ebner-Landy.
Harvard, 390 pp., £41.95, October 2025,978 0 674 29412 7 Show More
by Katie Ebner-Landy.
Harvard, 390 pp., £41.95, October 2025,
“... Character beliefs build on vapour, congeal into something solid and can then dissolve once more. Katie Ebner-Landy’s The Character Sketch as Philosophy is pitched between intellectual history and philosophy. It tells the story of the reception and dissemination of Theophrastus’ character sketches, but also does much more than that. ... ”
