Duelling [ Politics & Society ]
… dimension 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 … opens on a duel in which the hero’s father is killed and ends on a duel between Barry and his stepson. The end of Clarissa is perhaps the most perfect example of the contradiction of duels, when Morden defeats Lovelace in the final … readers return to these forms to reflect upon their enduring presence throughout the century. 15 . Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, ed. Angus Ross (London: The Folio Society, 1985, [1748]), p. 1487. 16 . Further famous examples from French …
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