Duelling [ Politics & Society ]
… but its imperative, its power, had waned and could be, though it not always was, resisted’ (Andrew, p. 81). Duels in Literature The literature of the eighteenth century echoes concerns for duels, and while the practice was still widespread, novels often … which existed in society itself around the practice of duelling. See for instance John Leigh, Touché: The Duel in Literature (Harvard University Press, 2015) who argues that duels are caught in a contradiction between the neoclassical …
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