Download or read book A Chapter on Duelling written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Touch written by John Leigh and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-08 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the West’s best writers fought in duels or wrote about them, seduced by glamour or risk or recklessness. A gift as a plot device, the duel also offered a way to discover how we face fears of humiliation, pain, and death. John Leigh’s literary history of the duel illuminates these and other tensions attending the birth of the modern world.
Download or read book The Book of Duels written by Michael Garriga and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fierce, searing, and darkly comical, Garriga's debut collection of short-short fiction depicts historical and imagined duels, re-envisioning in a flash the competing points of motivation—courage and cowardice, honor and vengeance—that lead individuals to risk it all. In this compact collection, “settling the score” provides a fascinating apparatus for exploring foundational civilizing ideas. Notions of courage, cowardice, and revenge course through Michael Garriga’s flash fiction pieces, each one of which captures a duel’s decisive moment from three distinct perspectives: opposing accounts from the individual duelists, followed by the third account of a witness. In razor-honed language, the voices of the duelists take center stage, training a spotlight on the litany of misguided beliefs and perceptions that lead individuals into such conflicts. From Cain and Abel to Andrew Jackson and Charles Dickenson; from John Henry and the steam drill to an alcoholic fighting the bottle: the cumulative effect of these powerful pieces is a probing and disconcerting look at humankind’s long-held notions of pride, honor, vengeance, and satisfaction. Meticulously crafted by Garriga, and with stunning illustrations by Tynan Kerr, The Book of Duels is a unique and remarkable debut.
Download or read book Essay on Duelling Morally and Historically Considered Etc written by William Butler Odell and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Three Dissertations on the Pernicious Effects of Gaming on Duelling and on Suicide written by Richard Hey and published by . This book was released on 1812 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes on Duels and Duelling written by Lorenzo Sabine and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Essay on the Practice of Duelling as it exists in modern society Translated from the Italian by the author written by Giacomo SEGA and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reflections on Duelling and on the Most Effectual Means for Preventing it written by and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Complete Bibliography of Fencing and Duelling written by Thimm, F. R. G. S., Carl A. and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally an examination of the sport "as practiced by all European nations from the Middle Ages to the present day," with 1896 being the "present day," this bibliography today serves as an exemplary historical reference. In addition to the informative bibliography, the "Notes on Fencing and Duelling" section fascinates readers with its accounts of duels as reported in various publications of the time. One story from the September 21, 1890, edition of the Sunday Times startlingly reveals, "After a French duel, if 'honor has been satisfied, ' and nobody has been assassinated, a grand breakfast usually takes place."
Download or read book A dissertation on duelling written by Richard Hey and published by . This book was released on 1801 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Essay on the Practice of Duelling written by Giacomo Sega and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Duel in Early Modern England written by Markku Peltonen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguments about the place and practice of the duel in early modern England were widespread. The distinguished intellectual historian Markku Peltonen examines this debate, and show how the moral and ideological status of duelling was discussed within a much larger cultural context of courtesy, civility and politeness. The advocates of the duel, following Italian and French examples, contended that it maintained and enhanced politeness; its critics by contrast increasingly severed duelling from civility, and this separation became part of a vigorous attempt in the late seventeenth century and beyond to redefine civility, politeness and indeed the nature and evolution of Englishness. To understand the duel is to understand much more fully some crucial issues in the cultural and ideological history of Stuart England, and Markku Peltonen's study will thus engage the attention of a very wide audience of historians and cultural and literary scholars.
Download or read book The History of Duelling written by John Gideon Millingen and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Duelling Vol 1 2 written by J. G. Millingen and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-12 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History of Duelling in two volumes is a historical work by British author J. G. Millingen. In this chronological account, author deals with the custom and tradition of duels from the dark age of civilization to the closest examples in modern age. Concerning the dueling among the ancients, author offers examples of Achilles fighting Hector, Turnus and Aeneas and other examples from Greek and Roman history. However, he makes a distinction between these legendary combat duels and later personal duels which were prompted by different causes and reasons. Religion and love are emphasized as two main triggers that caused numerous duels throughout the history. Due to sources and documents, the book mostly deals with duels in France and Britain, but also covers this practice and tradition in other European parts and countries.
Download or read book Reflections on Duelling and on the most effectual means of stopping it written by REFLECTIONS. and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Remedy for Duelling written by Lyman Beecher and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Remedy for Duelling A sermon etc written by Lyman BEECHER and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
