Touché

The Duel in Literature

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, European
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Author: John Leigh ISBN: 9780674287006
Publisher: Harvard University Press Publication: June 8, 2015
Imprint: Harvard University Press Language: English
Author: John Leigh
ISBN: 9780674287006
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication: June 8, 2015
Imprint: Harvard University Press
Language: English

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.

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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.

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