Edition |
First edition. |
Description |
329 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-320) and index. |
Contents |
1. Inventing the Guillotine -- 2. The Guillotine and the Death Penalty at the Time of the French Revolution -- 3. Guillotinomania -- 4. Talking Heads and Walking Trunks -- 5. The Rise and Fall of a Tradition -- 6. The Museum, Fairground, and the Collector's Guillotine -- 7. Victor Hugo, Hector Berlioz, and the Condemned Man -- 8. The Criminal-Artist of the Guillotine -- 9. The Satirical Guillotine -- 10. The Guillotinenromantik of Georg Buchner and Antoine Wiertz -- 11. Macabre Tales: Irving, Dumas, Janin, and Sue -- 12. Literary Eyewitnesses -- 13. Dostoevsky's Idiot -- 14. Novels of the French Revolution -- 15. The Guillotine Burned and the Guillotine Nostalgia of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam -- 16. Cabaret, Grand Guignol, and Broadway -- 17. Anarchists Confront the Guillotine -- 18. Fantomas and the Triumph of Evil -- 19. The Guillotine in the Silent Film -- 20. Aphorists, Poets, and Playwrights -- 21. The Nazi Guillotine -- 22. The Guillotine Sails for the New World -- 23. The Campaign Against the Death Penalty--Existentialists and Filmmakers -- 24. Guillotines in Unexpected Places -- 25. Recent Plays and Films about the French Revolution and the Historical Guillotine -- 26. The Guillotine Between Word and Image. |
Subject |
Guillotine -- History.
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Guillotine in literature.
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Other Form: |
Online version: Gerould, Daniel Charles, 1928- Guillotine, its legend and lore. 1st ed. New York : Blast Books, 1992 (OCoLC)654674910 |
ISBN |
0922233020 |
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9780922233021 |
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