Touché : the duel in literature /
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 a...
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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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