TY  - BOOK
AU  - Leigh,John
TI  - Touché: The Duel in Literature 
SN  - 9780674286986
U1  - 809/.933559 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Dueling in literature
KW  - Dueling
KW  - History
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Comparative Literature
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674286986
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674286986
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674286986/original
ER  -