Touché : : The Duel in Literature / / John Leigh.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Leigh, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (330 p.) :; 10 halftones
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674286986; 9783110665901
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674286986
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: John Leigh.

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.