| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 16, 2015) |
| Subject |
Dueling in literature.
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Dueling -- History
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Comparative Literature.
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Dueling
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Dueling in literature
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780674286986 |
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0674286987 |
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0674504380 |
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9780674504387 |
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