Losing our heads : : beheadings in literature and culture / / Regina Janes.
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York : : New York University Press,, [2005] 2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 pages) :; illustrations |
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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.