- Introduction
- 1. Honored in the Breach
- “A Barbarous Custom”
- Abbé de Saint-Pierre
- Corneille, Le Cid (1637)
- 2. The Comical Duel
- Deterring the Duellist
- Duel and Ridicule
- Molière, Le bourgeois gentilhomme (1670)
- More Wretches and Cowards
- Sedaine, Le philosophe sans le savoir (1765)
- Sheridan, The Rivals (1775)
- Dickens, The Pickwick Papers (1836)
- 3. The Poignant Duel
- Richardson, Clarissa; or, The History of a Young Lady (1747–48)
- Rousseau, Julie; ou, La nouvelle Héloïse (1761)
- Laclos, Les liaisons dangereuses (1782)
- 4. The Judicial Duel
- Kleist, “Der Zweikampf” (1811)
- 5. The “Romantic” Duel
- Nature’s Aristocrats versus Darwinian Imperatives
- Pushkin, Eugene Onegin (1823–31)
- Mérimée, “Le vase étrusque” (1830)
- 6. The Duel and Self-Realization
- Smollett, The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748)
- Casanova, “Il duello, ovvero Saggio della vita di G. C. Veneziano” (1780)
- Hugo, Marion de Lorme (1829)
- Thackeray, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. (1844)
- Dumas père, Les trois mousquetaires (1844)
- 7. The Grotesque Duel
- Twain, A Tramp Abroad (1878) and Pudd’nhead Wilson (1894)
- Maupassant, “Un duel” (1883) and “Un lâche” (1884)
- Conrad, “A Duel” (1908)
- Schnitzler, Casanovas Heimfahrt (1918)
- Pirandello, Il giuoco delle parti (1918)
- 8. Paradoxes of the Duel
- A Tragicomedy
- The Savage Noble
- The Cult of Style
- Laws and Rules
- The Duel over Women
- Epilogue: 1918
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
Touché
The Duel in Literature
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