Leacock, Stephen

Japanese: リーコック(英語表記)Leacock, Stephen
Leacock, Stephen
Born December 30, 1869, Swanmoor, England
[Died] March 28, 1944. Toronto, Canada. Canadian humorist and economist. Full name Stephen Butler Leacock. Born in England, he moved to Canada at the age of six. He studied at the University of Toronto and the University of Chicago, and taught economics at McGill University for about 30 years from 1903, where he was famous as a distinguished professor. However, his forte was humorous novels, and he wrote many short story collections, including his most famous work, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912), Nonsense Novels (1911), and My Discovery of England (1922). He was also a prolific critic, writing biographies of Mark Twain (1932) and Charles Dickens (1933). He also wrote his autobiography, The Boy I Left Behind (1946). (→ Canadian Literature)

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Japanese:
[生]1869.12.30. イギリス,スワンムア
[没]1944.3.28. カナダ,トロント
カナダのユーモア作家,経済学者。フルネーム Stephen Butler Leacock。イギリスに生まれ,6歳のときにカナダへ移住。トロント大学,シカゴ大学に学び,1903年からマギル大学で約 30年間経済学を講じ,名物教授として有名であった。しかし本領はユーモア小説で,最も著名な『町の日向点描』Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town(1912)をはじめとして,『ノンセンス小説集』Nonsense Novels(1911),『わがイギリス発見』My Discovery of England(1922)など多数の短編集を著した。批評家としても健筆をふるい,『マーク・トウェーン』Mark Twain(1932),『チャールズ・ディケンズ』Charles Dickens(1933)などの評伝がある。ほかに,自伝『あとに残した少年』The Boy I Left Behind(1946)がある。(→カナダ文学)

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