Touché : The Duel in Literature / John Leigh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leigh, John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dueling in literature.

Dueling--History.

Dueling.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

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

Notes:

Includes index.

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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Mrz 2018)

ISBN:

9780674287006

0674287002

9780674286986

0674286987

OCLC:

1029827269