@article{1478603,
      recid = {1478603},
      author = {Miller, William Ian, },
      title = {The Mystery of Courage /},
      pages = {1 online resource (360 p.)},
      abstract = {Few of us spend much time thinking about courage, but we  know it when we see it--or do we? Is it best displayed by  marching into danger, making the charge, or by resisting,  enduring without complaint? Is it physical or moral, or  both? Is it fearless, or does it involve subduing fear?  Abner Small, a Civil War soldier, was puzzled by what he  called the "mystery of bravery"; to him, courage and  cowardice seemed strangely divorced from character and  will. It is this mystery, just as puzzling in our day, that  William Ian Miller unravels in this engrossing meditation.  Miller culls sources as varied as soldiers' memoirs, heroic  and romantic literature, and philosophical discussions to  get to the heart of courage--and to expose its role in  generating the central anxieties of masculinity and  manhood. He probes the link between courage and fear, and  explores the connection between bravery and seemingly  related states: rashness, stubbornness, madness, cruelty,  fury; pride and fear of disgrace; and the authority and  experience that minimize fear. By turns witty and moving,  inquisitive and critical, his inquiry takes us from ancient  Greece to medieval Europe, to the American Civil War, to  the Great War and Vietnam, with sidetrips to the  schoolyard, the bedroom, and the restaurant. Whether  consulting Aristotle or private soldiers, Miller elicits  consistently compelling insights into a condition as  endlessly interesting as it is elusive.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1478603},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674041059},
}