Representing and Interrogating Dueling, Caning, and Fencing during the British Romantic Period

Representing and Interrogating Dueling, Caning, and Fencing during the British Romantic Period examines Romantic-era representations of physical interpersonal conflict and the ways in which they reflect, challenge, and subvert gender roles, class hierarchies, and racial and ethnic stereotypes. Along with fictional depictions of one-on-one physical aggression by writers such as Mary Robinson, William Godwin, Walter Scott, Lord Byron, and Mary Shelley, it considers historical accounts of honor vio