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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 t...

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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
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Language:English
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Introduction --   |t 1. Honored in the Breach --   |t 2. The Comical Duel --   |t 3. The Poignant Duel --   |t 4. The Judicial Duel --   |t The “Romantic” Duel --   |t 6. The Duel and Self- Realization --   |t 7. The Grotesque Duel --   |t 8. Paradoxes of the Duel --   |t Epilogue: 1918 --   |t Notes --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Index 
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