Touché : the duel in literature / John Leigh.

By:

Leigh, John, 1969- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015Description: 1 online resource : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780674286986
0674286987
0674504380
9780674504387

Other title:

Duel in literature

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Touché.DDC classification:

809/.933559 23

LOC classification:

PN56.D84 L45 2015

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Contents:

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Honored in the Breach -- 2. The Comical Duel -- 3. The Poignant Duel -- 4. The Judicial Duel -- The "Romantic" Duel -- 6. The Duel and Self- Realization -- 7. The Grotesque Duel -- 8. Paradoxes of the Duel -- Epilogue: 1918 -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Summary: Many of the West's best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh's literary history of the duel illuminates these and other tensions attending the birth of the modern world.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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In English.

Many of the West's best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh's literary history of the duel illuminates these and other tensions attending the birth of the modern world.

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