Dueling: The Cult of Honor in Fin-De-Siecle Germany: The Cult of Honor in Fin-de-Siècle Germany - Brossura

McAleer, Kevin

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ISBN 10: 0691015945 ISBN 13: 9780691015941

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1997

Riassunto

The question of what it takes "to be a man" comes under scrutiny in this sharp, often playful, cultural critique of the German duel--the deadliest type of one-on-one combat in fin-de-si

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"[The book] contains excellent material on the mechanics of the duel, and penetrating passages on every subject it deals with. McAleer is often clever and always spirited."--David Blackbourn, London Review of Books

"[A] well-researched and entertainingly written study."--Richard J. Evans, The Times Literary Supplement

"[An] engaging and valuable monograph. . . . [McAleer] has presented his account with verve, wit, and a rich and colorful vocabulary. . . . This book deserves an established place in the bibliography on modern German society."--Vernon L. Ludtke, American Historical Review

"A positively captivating look at turn-of-the-century Germany. . . . "--D. R. Dorondo, The Historian

"[McAleer] argues that dueling in Wilhelmine Germany, although only practiced by an aristocratic minority, helped shape German attitudes toward honor, women, and other countries. . . . a fascinating glimpse into a deadly icon of the German popular imagination."--Library Journal

"Between 1871, when the Franco-Prussian war ended, and 1914, when the first world war began . . . German officers kept boredom at bay by killing each other in pistol duels. . . . Kevin McAleer's book is extraordinarily comprehensive, taking the astonished reader through the dueling ritual from first provocation to final death agony."--The Economist

"Kevin McAleer has dispelled any romanticism surrounding the nineteenth-century German duel. . . . [He] wholeheartedly enters into the fascinating intricacies of dueling. . . . [and] keeps his moral indignation at bay, with a tone of ironic humor throughout."--Alexander Rose, Literary Review

"[This] portrait of Germany's dueling classes is vivid and appalling. It fully illustrates the book's wonderful epigraph, taken from W. Somerset Maugham: "Man has always found it easier to sacrifice his life than to learn the multiplication table."--Lee Lescaze, Wall Street Journal

"Kevin Mcaleer has spent five years researching the fin-de-siecle German duel. . . . The results . . . are contained in this intriguing book. One is left staggered at the triviality of the causes for which men were willing to risk death. . . . and at the pretentiousness of the pseudo-chivalrous etiquette of the German duel."--Sunday Telegraph (London)
". . . [a] lively, opinionated account of dueling in Germany. McAleer is thorough about the weapons, the customs, even the proper dress for dueling, and he's properly sardonic about the adolescent code of honor that perpetuated it."--Men's Journal

Contenuti:

	List of Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	3
I	The Last Imperial Knights	11
	Origins	12
	The Legal and Political Setting	23
	The Social Dimension	34
II	Cowards Die a Thousand Times	43
	Codes, Insults, and Challenges	45
	Preliminary Events	53
	The Pistol Duel	64
III	Theirs Not to Reason Why	85
	The Courts of Honor: 1808-1897	86
	Trial and Error	99
	The Military Ethos	107
IV	Graduation with Honor	119
	The Mensur	120
	Scholars, Officers, and Other Gentlemen	127
	Student Honor: Masculinity as Social Status	137
V	Les Belles Dames Sans Merci	159
	That Certain Type of Insult	161
	Sexual Honor	169
	Effi Briest and Cecile	178
VI	And Death Shall Have No Dominion	183
	Conclusion	196
	List of Abbreviations	213
	Notes	215
	Bibliography	255
	Index	263

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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0691015945
• ISBN 13: 9780691015941
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 268