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Author:

Leigh, John, 1969- author.

Title:

Touch©♭ : the duel in literature / John Leigh.

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

viii, 334 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Subject:

Dueling in literature.
Dueling--History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Epilogue: Honored in the breach. "A barbarous custom"; 1918. Corneille, Le Cid (1637) -- The comical duel. Deterring the duellist; Duel and ridicule; Moli©·re, Le bourgeois gentilhomme (1670); More wretches and cowards; Sedaine, Le philosophe sans le savoir (1765); Sheridan, The rivals (1775); Dickens, The Pickwick papers (1836) -- The poignant duel. Richardson, Clarissa; or, the history of a young lady (1747/48); Rousseau, Julie; ou, la nouvelle H©♭lo©se (1761); Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses (1782) -- The judicial duel. Kleist, Der Zweikampf (1811) -- The "romantic" duel. Nature's aristocrats vs. Darwinian imperatives; Pushkin, Eugene Onegin (1823/31); M©♭rim©♭e, Le vase ©œtrusque (1830) -- The duel and self-realization. Smollett, The adventures of Roderick Random (1748); Casanova, Il duello, ovvero saggio della vita di G. C. Veneziano (1780); Hugo, Marion de Lorme (1829); Thackeray, The memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. (1844); Dumas p©♭re, Les trois mousquetaires (1844) -- The grotesque duel. Twain, A tramp abroad (1878) and Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894); Maupassant, Un duel (1883) and Un l©Øche (1884); Conrad, A duel (1908); Schnitzler, Casanovas Heimfahrt (1918); Pirandello, Il giuoco delle parti (1918) -- Paradoxes of the duel. A tragicomedy; The savage noble; The cult of style; Laws and rules; The duel over women -- Epilogue: 1918.

ISBN:

0674504380
9780674504387

OCLC:

(OCoLC)893709448

LCCN:

2014042689

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)