Dickson D. Bruce
Autor de And They All Sang Hallelujah: Plain-Folk Camp-Meeting Religion, 1800-1845
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Dickson D. Bruce is a professor of history at the University of California, Irvine.
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According to Bruce, “The practical meaning of the duel lay in its opportunities for risking one’s life in proof of honor an reputation” (38). Linking the duel to his discussion of violence as an outgrowth of passion, Bruce writes that the structured ritual following a challenge “provided formal channels for controlling passion while defending oneself, but directing anger into conventional courtesies between principals as, through their seconds, they communicated with each other” (39). It also afforded the opportunity for men to demonstrate their mastery of passion and fear while allowing “each principal to experience vividly the forces of nature that challenged civilization” (39). In representing the structure of Southern society, Bruce argues, “Dueling reflected Southern ideals of social hierarchy, since there was a strict convention that duels were to involve only gentlemen, and that one should never fight with a social inferior” (40). According to Bruce, “Southerners closely related high social status to an ability, carefully cultivated, to control one’s own passions” (40). This understanding of the duel, as a social performance demonstrating the duelists’ mastery of their position in society and providing them an opportunity to respond to a slight while maintaining a degree of respect for one another due to their advanced social position, recurs throughout books dedicated to the subject of honor.… (más)