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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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2015.
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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.
