Literary Case Studies in Cowardice: Parolles, Waller, and Hirsch - Hardcover
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Literary Case Studies in Cowardice: Parolles, Waller, and Hirsch
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...
Richard Hillyer is Professor of English at University of South Alabama, USA. His previous books include Four Augustan Science Poets: Abraham Cowley, James Thomson, Henry Brooke, Erasmus Darwin (2020), Auden's Syllabic Verse (2020), Divided between Carelessness and Care: A Cultural History (2013), Sir Philip Sydney, Cultural Icon (2010), and Hobbes and His Poetic Contemporaries: Cultural...
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