Duelling [ Politics & Society ]
… and contradictions which existed in society itself around the practice of duelling. 13 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, on …
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