Duelling [ Politics & Society ]
… the tensions 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 … . Richard Sheridan, The Rivals, ed. Tiffany Stern (London: Bloomsbury, 2004 [1775]), act III, sc. IV, p. 116. 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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