Dr John Leigh has written the first book exclusively devoted to the duel in literature. In Touché, he offers a compelling picture of the ways in which novelists, playwrights and poets have used duelling as a trope to reveal the extent of manly valour, trickery and sheer foolishness. - See more at: http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/to-the-death#sthash.F6Myu4uc.dpuf