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 … as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.' (act IV, sc. III, 138) In long eighteenth-century literature more generally, duels are ubiquitous. Kiernan quotes Restoration comedies such as The Comical Revenge where …
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