Touché : The Duel in Literature /
Leigh, John
Touché : The Duel in Literature / John Leigh. - Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only - 1 online resource (330 p.) : 10 halftones
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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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674286986
10.4159/9780674286986 doi
Dueling in literature.
Dueling--History.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature.
809/.933559
Touché : The Duel in Literature / John Leigh. - Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only - 1 online resource (330 p.) : 10 halftones
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
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9780674286986
10.4159/9780674286986 doi
Dueling in literature.
Dueling--History.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature.
809/.933559