Losing our heads beheadings in literature and culture / Regina Janes.

Author/creator Janes, Regina, 1946-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : New York University Press,
Descriptionxv, 255 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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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 décolletage : beheadings in the colonies -- Epilogue : Craniate origins and headless futures.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 197-241) and index.
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LCCN 2005006791
ISBN9780814742693 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0814742696 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780814742709 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN081474270X (pbk. : alk. paper)

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