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Touche: The Duel in Literature

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Touché: The Duel in Literature - Leigh, John
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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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Touché: The Duel in Literature 2015, Harvard University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780674504387

Hardcover