- Description
- 1 online resource (xv, 255 p.) : ill.
- Uniform Title
- Losing our heads (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Losing our heads (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-241) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2005006791
- OCLC
- ssj0000607403
- Author
Janes, Regina, 1946-
- Title
Losing our heads [electronic resource] : beheadings in literature and culture / Regina Janes.
- Imprint
New York : New York University Press, c2005.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-241) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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