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Touché : : The Duel in Literature / / 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 t...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (330 p.) :; 10 halftones
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Table of 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

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