Duelling [ Politics & Society ]
… of duelling and the condemnation by critics of the medieval barbarity of duelling. In Richardson ’s Clarissa or in Rousseau ’s La Nouvelle Héloïse , for instance, the heroine insists, on the eve of the duels which conclude the novels, …
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