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This analysis of epic poetry shows the duel to have served as a mechanism for avoiding catastrophic battlefield losses, and thus to have been the pivotal element in a complex system of practices and institutions.
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The monarchs of seventeenth-century Europe put a surprisingly high priority on the abolition of dueling, seeing its eradication as an important step from barbarism toward a rational state monopoly on justice. But it was one thing to ban dueling and another to stop it. Duelists continued to kill each other with swords or pistols in significant numbers deep into the nineteenth century. In 1883 Maupassant called dueling "the last of our unreasonable customs." As a dramatic and forbidden ritual from another age, the duel retained a powerful hold on the public mind and, in particular, the literary imagination.Many of the greatest names in Western literature wrote about or even fought in duels, among them Corneille, Molière, Richardson, Rousseau, Pushkin, Dickens, Hugo, Dumas, Twain, Conrad, Chekhov, and Mann. As John Leigh explains, the duel was a gift as a plot device. But writers also sought to discover in duels something more fundamental about human conflict and how we face our fears of humiliation, pain, and death. The duel was, for some, a social cause, a scourge to be mocked or lamented; yet even its critics could be seduced by its risk and glamour. Some conservatives defended dueling by arguing that the man of noble bearing who cared less about living than living with honor was everything that the contemporary bourgeois was not. The literary history of the duel, as Touché makes clear, illuminates the tensions that attended the birth of the modern world.
Dueling in literature. --- Dueling --- History.
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French drama --- Dueling in literature. --- History and criticism.
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"Curieuse fascination que celle du XIXe siècle pour le duel. S'il est l'objet d'un nombre extraordinaire d'ouvrages et d'articles, sa réalité quantitative sur le terrain est bien plus incertaine. De même, constamment évoqués dans la littérature, les duels, une fois annoncés ou commencés, disparaissent souvent de la page et restent avortés, interrompus. Dans l'univers socioculturel du XIXe siècle, le duel semble à la fois omniprésent et essentiellement absent. Ce paradoxe est l'objet du présent essai. Une lecture attentive des textes y mène à sa première conclusion : une incompatibilité formelle entre la logique du récit réaliste et le duel tel qu'on le conçoit au XIXe siècle. Cette problématique déborde la littérature et éclaire d'un jour nouveau la place a priori étonnante prise par ce rituel archaïque dans l'imaginaire de la société industrielle naissante. La fascination du XIXe siècle pour le duel s'expliquerait avant tout par l'impossibilité de le raconter."--Page 4 of cover.
Dueling --- Dueling in literature. --- French literature --- French literature --- History
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Dueling in literature --- Masculinity in literature --- Men in literature
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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.
Dueling in literature. --- Dueling --- Duels --- Fighting --- Chivalry --- Martial arts --- Combat --- Wager of battle --- History.
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Dueling in literature. --- Dueling --- Russian literature --- Russian literature --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism.
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Dueling in literature. --- Russian literature --- Russian literature --- History and criticism --- History and criticism
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Dueling in literature --- Dueling --- Dueling --- Fencing --- History --- History --- Levi, Giorgio Enrico, --- Exhibitions. --- Biblioteca nazionale centrale di Roma
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