<i>Satisfaktion</i>in Nineteenth-Century German Dueling Violence and Its Relevance for Literary Analysis

Mills, Andrew

doi:10.1080/00168890.2011.564523

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“…Terms for the fight could be negotiated in a number of ways, and many of the standard terms, such as firing while in motion during a ‘barrier duel’, minimized the chance of harm. Moreover, many challenges were resolved before actual fighting took place: the mere willingness of both parties to show up for the fight was often satisfactory (p. 216; see also Mills, 2011). For these reasons, very few duels resulted in serious injury or death – in some countries where dueling was widespread, dueling fatalities had become completely unknown by the 19th century (p. 215), a fact also attributable in part to the generally inept character of violent face-to-face confrontations (Collins, 2013).…”

Section: Status Honor and The Duel Ritual: Theory And Historical Practicementioning

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Duels in the European Novel: Honor, Reputation, and the Limits of a Bourgeois Form

Merriman

2015

Cultural Sociology

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Abstract. The emergence of market society in Europe prompted a major change in the social measurement of individual worth. The formal system of aristocratic honor culture was gradually supplanted by a bourgeois concept of reputation rooted in the public perception of individual merits. During this period, dueling was a practice of dispute resolution commonly used in honor groups, and also diffused to bourgeois groups in domains such as politics and journalism. This article explores this cultural transformation by examining duels in 20 European novels and comparing these duels with theoretical and historical work on duels as a social practice. The novels present a significantly distorted representation of dueling. This distortion demonstrates the limited ability of the novel, a bourgeois form, to describe group-oriented values such as honor. This is, in turn, sociologically significant: the novels point to major differences in the social psychologies underpinning honor and reputation, and also anticipate the obsolescence of honor culture well before this occurred historically.Keywords class, duels, honor, novels, violence, literature, sociology of literature, fiction, bourgeois, aristocracy This is an author postprint. The final, published version is available online at http://dx

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Section: Status Honor and The Duel Ritual: Theory And Historical Practicementioning

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Duels in the European Novel: Honor, Reputation, and the Limits of a Bourgeois Form

Merriman

2015

Cultural Sociology

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“…216; see also Mills, 2011). For these reasons, very few duels resulted in serious injury or deathin some countries where dueling was widespread, dueling fatalities had become completely unknown by the 19th century (p. 215), a fact also attributable in part to the generally inept character of violent face-to-face confrontations (Collins, 2013).…”

Section: Status Honor and The Duel Ritual: Theory And Historical Pracmentioning

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Duels in the European Novel: Honor, Reputation, and the Limits of a Bourgeois Form

Merriman¹

2017

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Satisfaktionin Nineteenth-Century German Dueling Violence and Its Relevance for Literary Analysis

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Duels in the European Novel: Honor, Reputation, and the Limits of a Bourgeois Form

Duels in the European Novel: Honor, Reputation, and the Limits of a Bourgeois Form

Duels in the European Novel: Honor, Reputation, and the Limits of a Bourgeois Form

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