“Paper Bullets of the Brain”: Satire, Dueling and the Rise of the Gentleman Author
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the duel of honor functioned as a formal recourse to attacks on a gentleman's reputation. Concurrently, many notable literary figures such as Samuel Johnson, William Gifford, Thomas Moore, and Lord Byron were involved in literary disputes featu...
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Virginia Tech
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33231 http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05252007-154850/ |