臆病者の英文学 Literary Case Studies in Cowardice : Parolles, Waller, and Hirsch

著者名：Hillyer, Richard

Palgrave Macmillan（2025/08/31発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9783031987991
• eISBN：9783031988004

Description

This book offers case studies from throughout literature to reveal cowardice as a more complex and interesting phenomenon than typically understood. Pushing beyond the straightforward treatment of cowardice in military contexts and others where it is subject to punishment or severe condemnation, Hillyer asks: how do cowards survive in a world generally hostile to them and why do they attract such wide vituperation? Following a lexical and literary overview of cowardice starting with the Oxford English Dictionary to provide a big picture, chapters provide deep dives into specific cowardly character representatives, including Shakespeare's Parolles (All's Well That Ends Well), English poet and politician Edmund Waller, and Joseph Conrad's Hirsch (Nostromo). 

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: The Most Contemptible Imaginable.- 2. Simply the Thing I am: The Case of M Parolles.- 3. A World of Very Great Faults: The Case of Mr Waller.- 4. A Miracle of Fear: The Case of Sr Hirsch.- 5. Conclusion.