Touché: The Duel in Literature

Touché: The Duel in Literature
ISBN-10
0674504380
ISBN-13
9780674504387
Series
Touché
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
334
Language
English
Published
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
John Leigh

Description

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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