Losing Our Heads : Beheadings in Literature and Culture /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Janes, Regina, 1946-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : New York University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Executions and executioners in art.
Beheading in literature.
Beheading > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue : Head matters
  • Introduction to a beheading
  • Bouncing heads and scaffold dramas
  • Power to the people : his pike and her guillotine
  • At the sign of the Baptist's head
  • African heads and imperial decolletage : beheadings in the colonies
  • Epilogue : Craniate origins and headless futures.

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