Touché: The Duel in Literature

by John Leigh

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674504380

ISBN13:9780674504387

Release Date:June 2015

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:352 Pages

Weight:1.30 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 6.3" x 9.5"

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